Example sentences of "'d be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been sent out here on Uncle Mick 's money . |
| 3 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 4 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 5 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 6 | He 'd been beaten up once and arrested once . ’ |
| 7 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 8 | He 'd been beaten up , lied to , and left flat on his back in the Underground . |
| 9 | I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable . |
| 10 | Yes , it 's just a plaque and erm but The thing that erm I enjoyed on that occasion was meeting the other conservationists who 'd been called up . |
| 11 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 12 | Dawn Allenby seemed annoyed too , though that was possibly because she 'd been cheated out of those extra moments in his arms . |
| 13 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 14 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 15 | from down by the Nag 's Head , who 'd been bombed out . |
| 16 | He 'd been singled out . |
| 17 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 18 | Er w and he 'd been turned down by and all the other er top lawyers in |
| 19 | He told me he applied but I thought he told me he 'd been turned down . |
| 20 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 21 | Then this lad who 'd been padded up with John come round to see us . |
| 22 | as if he 'd been cut out of tin . |
| 23 | If you 'd been tossed around in the eddies down there I would n't have given much for your chances . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
| 25 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 26 | ‘ She was n't frightened of flying , but she was very frightened of the seat belt , so I think she 'd been tied down at one time . |
| 27 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 28 | ‘ It seemed to me she 'd been worn down by leading a life she was n't fitted for . |
| 29 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 30 | He had fancied being a poet when he was a boy — before he 'd been thrust out into the real world to try to earn a living . |