Example sentences of "'d be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now . |
| 2 | I think that 's what I think , but I 'm not sure that if I 'd been born here I 'd be pleased to see me walking down the lane . |
| 3 | He 'd been born there and the Burnses had been part of the village for generations . |
| 4 | She was surprised by his hatred sometimes , but then he 'd been born there and grown up , while she was second-generation American . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , she told me how you 'd been born early , weeks early , how you were very small , but not small enough for special care . |
| 6 | The man escaped from Coney Hill mental hospital in Gloucester , where he 'd been sent exactly a year ago after being convicted of the assault of a three year old girl in the city . |
| 7 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 8 | Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind . |
| 9 | She 'd been sent there for contempt of court by Essex magistrates when she refused to answer questions about her personal finances in a poll tax case . |
| 10 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 11 | That 's not like Dot , I felt if she 'd been called away she 'd have got word to me somehow so … so that 's why I rang the Firm . |
| 12 | they 'd been ca they 'd been called so many times you know when he was low . |
| 13 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 14 | And she seemed flustered when I demanded to know where she 'd been when I 'd been gassed right next to the ship . |
| 15 | No matter what she did to distract herself , his dark penetrating eyes lingered in her memory as though they 'd been branded there . |
| 16 | Several hearings were held , and as a teacher involved with the family , and as someone who 'd been asked officially to ‘ socialise , them , Mr M was asked to give information to the Children 's Panel . |
| 17 | At Heathrow I 'd been asked specifically not to tranquillise him in case of the possibility of side-effects which could have seriously affected his future stud career . |
| 18 | It was n't drunkenness — she 'd been drunk twice , and neither time had been anything like this — but something else altogether . |
| 19 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 20 | He 'd been charged eventually and thrust into a cell for the night ; then , half an hour later , without explanation , given his belt back and told he could go . |
| 21 | They said he 'd been killed outright |
| 22 | er I went in the office and he said er I 'd been stood there about twenty minutes at the window and everybody was flitting around like a bee from flower to flower and they just left me stood there , so I never said anything , go on the back |
| 23 | There was a knock on the door , and when I said " Come in " the middle-aged woman who 'd been treated so rudely by Lennis in the morning appeared hesitantly . |
| 24 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
| 25 | He 'd been gone so long , without a word to her on his whereabouts , and now he was back and wanting to celebrate ! |
| 26 | He 'd been stabbed once . |
| 27 | Even if he 'd been rushed straight to hospital , they might not have been able to save him . |
| 28 | But she felt curiously light-headed , detached , as if she 'd been pushed too far , and her brain had temporarily given up the struggle to cope with this Alice in Wonderland situation . |
| 29 | Old grievances and resentments tumbled out , but in the light of day turned out to have less power than when they 'd been hidden away . |
| 30 | She 'd been scooped ignominiously into her rescuer 's arms and carried with ease to the quayside . |