Example sentences of "'d be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 2 | They too are all people who 'd been made redundant . |
| 3 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 4 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 6 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 7 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 8 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 9 | He he was very excitable , excitable and he was angry erm he was shouting at me er that he 'd been spreadeagled naked er on the floor , guns had been pointed at him and his front door had been smashed down and his er his family , his wife and children had been frightened . |
| 10 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 11 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 12 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 13 | I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that . |
| 14 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 15 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 16 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 17 | Because of his experience , he 'd been taken further into God 's Kingdom , he 'd been given that vision into God 's Kingdom , now that 's more than just been given your eyesight , cos there 's a lot of people will see , who have their eyesight intact , but refuse to have the vision that was necessary to accept Jesus , new kingdom . |
| 18 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 19 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 20 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 21 | Waiting for this programme and erm when the husband , her partner went home they 'd been to see this , I do n't know quite what happened |
| 22 | And he 'd been getting worse , no doubt about that . |
| 23 | As she 'd said to Ben when they 'd been getting ready to go to bed last night , you could practically feel the highly charged sexy atmosphere between that pair of love-birds ! |
| 24 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 25 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 26 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 27 | He 'd been smoking 50 a day for 40 years . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 30 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |