Example sentences of "[conj] he 'd been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |
| 2 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 3 | Kenneth came across it while returning from a far-flung artist 's studio where he 'd been to purchase a John Miller watercolour for my birthday . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember a border collie that had been stolen from outside a shop where he 'd been tied . |
| 5 | Any road , they crept off to Bury one weekend — it was where his mam lived , where he 'd been brought up and gone to school . |
| 6 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 7 | Although he 'd been kept in secure accommodation 3 times in his life , he was now in a stable relationship with a new foster mother . |
| 8 | It went to Geoffrey 's head that he 'd been cast as Mullins , the pirate . |
| 9 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 10 | The Edwardian informed me recently that he 'd been appointed trade attaché in one of our Central American embassies . |
| 11 | He laughed , and then added that he 'd been drunk as a cork himself actually , the night before . |
| 12 | He was taken into custody for his own protection … as it was learned that he 'd been disqualified from driving at the time of the crash . |
| 13 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 14 | If it was n't for Winnie — so understanding , knowing that he 'd been tricked , snared in this vile trap — he knew not what he 'd do . |
| 15 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 16 | He 'd nothing to say to her ; he did n't even plan to tell her that he 'd been to see her . |
| 17 | and quite a lot of the nurses used to walk their nurses , I mean they 're er war trained and unarmed combat and they 're wardens , let's face it , they 're not nurses , and one of them was saying to me , oh we had a fellow in the other day , he 'd , he 'd a , fallen up the police stations steps I think erm , he said that he 'd been to see the do gooders , he had this interview |
| 18 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 19 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |
| 20 | Daffy was shattered by the news that he 'd been replaced by Essex 's reprieved rebel tourist Neil Foster . |
| 21 | Daffy was shattered by the news that he 'd been replaced by Essex 's reprieved rebel tourist Neil Foster . |
| 22 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 23 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 24 | He he was very excitable , excitable and he was angry erm he was shouting at me er that he 'd been spreadeagled naked er on the floor , guns had been pointed at him and his front door had been smashed down and his er his family , his wife and children had been frightened . |
| 25 | Besides , he probably felt that he 'd been made to look foolish , and men do hate that . |
| 26 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 27 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 28 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 29 | Rumours that he 'd been kidnapped or murdered as part of the split that was rending the Provisionals and the old Republican idealists . |
| 30 | Sinews bunched and moved under his skin like oiled spaghetti ; Carson guessed that he 'd been posing and flexing in front of a mirror . |