Example sentences of "[adv] he 'd [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 " Can you estimate how long he 'd been in the water ? "
2 I thought perhaps he 'd been to you and sort of were you interested and he he 'd come back .
3 So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago .
4 Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha .
5 Maxim looked at the clutter of parts in front of him and realised how right he 'd been in saying soldiers hate to throw away guns , even cheap Spanish ones .
6 Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised .
7 I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time .
8 He spent money that he had n't got and twice he 'd been in a duel .
9 " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months .
10 Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ?
11 I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season .
12 Erm the other thing that , that I could n't quite hear but I thought when you were asking him about where he 'd been with the navy , I thought he said to the Far East unfortunately .
13 And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time .
14 She used to wonder where he 'd been in the meantime , but not any more .
15 So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment .
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