Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] he 'd been " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these delays are particularly galling , as Jeremy was found less than two kilometres from the glacial lakes where he 'd been walking . |
| 2 | He felt elated , warm-hearted at the sight of the place where he 'd been born . |
| 3 | She 'd fixed the place where he 'd been , stooped to pick up her baggage , and gone after him , not doubting that it was he . |
| 4 | When , drawn by a magnetism she was unable to resist , she looked his way again , he was gone , the place where he 'd been standing now occupied by a stout lady in an unbecoming striped sundress . |
| 5 | All night long he 'd been saying it . |
| 6 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 7 | Flailing at the air where he 'd been , she struck out at the switch to turn off the PA that had suddenly inexplicably turned itself on . |
| 8 | Flailing at the air where he 'd been , she struck out at the switch to turn off the PA that had suddenly inexplicably turned itself on . |
| 9 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 10 | Later in the night she would discover the scars , the knife wound across his shoulder-blades where he 'd been slashed in a Belfast bar , and the bullet wound above his right knee that had never healed properly , a legacy from when he was on border patrol and one of his own men had panicked and opened fire on him . |
| 11 | Philip rubbed the mist off the glass where he 'd been breathing on it . |
| 12 | Wee Charlie , aged seven and the youngest in the family , appeared out of the parlour where he 'd been playing . |
| 13 | Straining to see , he caught the sound of the pin tinkling to the floor a second before the metal object struck the wall of the container where he 'd been crouching . |
| 14 | " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months . |
| 15 | Keith Hanger returned to the prison where he 'd been serving his sentence last night . |