Example sentences of "'d [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been the man behind Mr Freedom , the shop that was the first place to sell T-shirts with slogans printed on them . |
| 2 | No doubt there 'd been the usual spate of Friday night burglaries , too . |
| 3 | But Ingrid almost denies this : ‘ I 'd been the typical first-year art-school person , entrenched in one style that was really landscapey — all earthy colours and shapes . |
| 4 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 5 | That 'd been the big question . |
| 6 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 7 | I thought , if he 'd been the one arriving in my world instead of the other way around , he 'd have thought I was just as stupid ! |
| 8 | There 'd been the Scofield incident you see . |
| 9 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 10 | What 's more , the girl in question was the Spanish girl who 'd been the cause of his being sacked by the Shakespeare School . |
| 11 | Many of the journalists felt they 'd been the innocent victims of a political decision . |
| 12 | He 'd been the main front-man each evening . |
| 13 | He wanted to make sure he knew who 'd been the problem and would n't let me off the hook . |
| 14 | She 'd been the most sought-after debutante of her year and , according to the occasional letter Alice had had from Lady Debrace , was forever receiving proposals from faithful admirers who danced constant attendance upon her . |
| 15 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 16 | You see there 'd been the nineteen fourteen eighteen War , then there 'd there was the strike , and er I started to work and I had to go to work . |
| 17 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 18 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 19 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 20 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 21 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 22 | In their dealings in the office they 'd worked well together , achieved an excellent rapport regarding the PR for the business fair , but somehow he 'd been the model of teasing aloofness , apparently with more time for Stephanie Marsa than for Caroline . |
| 23 | The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie . |
| 24 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 25 | Because I 'd been the butt of her wit she remembered me . |
| 26 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |
| 27 | Arnie was ready to take that risk but I was n't : I 'd been the one at London station . |
| 28 | They had three hundred and seventy three live children between them and on average they should of had twenty seven children with birth defects if they 'd been the same as the rest of the population , the non-criminal , non-prison erm erm erm non-prison population . |
| 29 | Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club . |
| 30 | She could tell by the tightening of his lips that he did n't take kindly to being given orders , but he could hardly back down now since he 'd been the one to insist they go to the office . |