Example sentences of "since he 'd been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice . |
| 2 | I shook and panicked and wept for the fist time since he 'd been born . |
| 3 | It was odd ; I found it difficult to focus on the time that had passed since he 'd been kidnapped ; sometimes it seemed like moments , at others like years . |
| 4 | As to his feelings for Madeleine , nurtured since he 'd been a little boy , even were they to be revived , it seemed unlikely Madeleine would respond to him . |
| 5 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 6 | Alexandra had n't heard the Colonel sound this cheerful since he 'd been confined to the wheelchair . |
| 7 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 8 | She might love her husband , but in exchange he 'd never wanted anything from her except sex , and she was n't even sure if he wanted that since he 'd been forced into marrying her . |
| 9 | He 'd been working too hard in college , and even harder since he 'd been running the farm . |
| 10 | 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 . |