Example sentences of "[pron] he 'd be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 2 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 3 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 4 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 5 | His life had been spent tending the land to which he 'd been born and what more could any man want ? |
| 6 | Very urgent business which he 'd been putting off . |
| 7 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 8 | Mike lowered the can of Coke which he 'd been emptying down his parched throat . |
| 9 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 10 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 11 | But of course , Agnes realised , Sims — or whoever he 'd been born — must once have been on the far side of The Wall , too . |
| 12 | An hour later , she 'd stopped thinking in those precise terms , and was trying to tell herself he 'd been detained . |
| 13 | ‘ The last time I saw him he 'd been drinking pretty heavily and he pushed me about a bit . |
| 14 | Vernon told him he 'd been taken home in a chauffeur-driven car . |
| 15 | He told her he 'd been married once , long ago , but had been so bitterly hurt that , although he loved women , could n't live without them , he had never been prepared to trust his life to one ever again . |
| 16 | He told me he applied but I thought he told me he 'd been turned down . |
| 17 | But he did n't tell me he 'd been going out with her for three weeks and he 's never . |
| 18 | He nodded , as if this was what he 'd been expecting . |
| 19 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 20 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 21 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 22 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
| 23 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 24 | And I understood at once the implications of what he 'd been saying . |
| 25 | She believed in most of what he 'd been saying ; she had no idea of how much he believed himself |
| 26 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 27 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 28 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |
| 29 | " To destroy the evidence of what he 'd been doing , or the result of his analysis , or the time he 'd spent on it . |
| 30 | I went to have a look at what he 'd been doing . |