Example sentences of "[subord] he 'd [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 2 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 3 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 4 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 5 | You do n't know , I mean he could of gone if he 'd been lying in a chair wa watching the |
| 6 | A police sergeant accused of assaulting a prisoner is said to have told a colleague that the man was treated like an animal , because he 'd been behaving like one . |
| 7 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 8 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 9 | The first , that with so much burnt umber on his hands he looked as though he 'd been playing with his own shit . |