Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] 'd be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 2 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 3 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 4 | It was as if her mind had split into two separate portions , Gina thought as with one part of it she listened attentively to the technical explanations and absorbed the aesthetic appearance of the system with approving eyes , her creative instincts stimulated with the challenge with which she 'd been bestowed . |
| 5 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 6 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 7 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 8 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 9 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 10 | His life had been spent tending the land to which he 'd been born and what more could any man want ? |
| 11 | Very urgent business which he 'd been putting off . |
| 12 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 13 | Mike lowered the can of Coke which he 'd been emptying down his parched throat . |
| 14 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 15 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 16 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's just what I 'd been thinking ! ’ answered Gabriel in surprise . |
| 18 | Oh , that 's what I 'd been thinking , fifty percent of what they want . |
| 19 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 20 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 21 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 22 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 23 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 24 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 25 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 26 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 27 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 28 | It was three times what she 'd been expecting . |
| 29 | She nodded , as if this was what she 'd been expecting , and then she took what was probably her first real look at her surroundings . |
| 30 | Well , he told Mummy , and now she 's furious , because apparently it 's what she 'd been hoping for . |