Example sentences of "'d be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They too are all people who 'd been made redundant . |
| 2 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 9 | Like he 'd been cut open and died and I put my hand in all among his intestines . ’ |
| 10 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 11 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 12 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 13 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 14 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 15 | if you 'd been buried alive you think |
| 16 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 17 | It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing . |
| 18 | Tonight , one of Hadley 's victims described her anger towards him , and her relief he 'd been found guilty . |
| 19 | He 'd been told various stories that had supplied small but interesting details about Mandru 's personality and private life . |
| 20 | Since that time , little has changed on the battlefield ; with a plentiful supply of Chinese arms and money , and bases in Thailand from which to operate , the Khmer Rouge was strong enough to resist the Vietnamese , But when Vietnam pulled out last year , the stalemate was broken ; Britain and the United States who 'd been backing other less murderous guerrilla factions , began to tire of the war and withdrew their support . |
| 21 | And I 'd been to top standard as it was then it was standard seven , and as the er you know now they let when the when they 've somebody in so long they let them walk about and come home and all so That time of day you got to you 'd got to pass examins and exams and such like as that . |
| 22 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 23 | Shortly after his death , I was working a ‘ noon and night ’ at a local Working Men 's Club when the top of the bill — a Welsh comic called Dave Swan — was unable to do the evening performance , as he 'd been taken ill . |
| 24 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 25 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 26 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 27 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 28 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 29 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 30 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |