Example sentences of "he 'd [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been a Labour Party member too . |
| 2 | When she 'd first qualified in forensic medicine he 'd been a young sergeant . |
| 3 | Given that he had half frightened her to death to begin with , he 'd been a gentle lover too , she recalled , a tender smile playing around her mouth . |
| 4 | He 'd been a uniformed inspector with the Soho Unit for nearly three years , and was probably due for a move ; no sign of it yet , but there was most likely a memo waiting deep in the machinery , easing its way out at the speed of a splinter . |
| 5 | He 'd been a successful amateur boxer before he joined Plummer 's organisation . |
| 6 | She had loved him while hating him , had loved him when he 'd been a perfect swine . |
| 7 | Strong hints about his IRA sympathies , as if everyone did n't know he 'd been a self-proclaimed Sinn Feinner since he was a youngster . |
| 8 | He 'd been a hard man to work for , but he taught Billy everything he knew about that garden and how to take care of it . |
| 9 | He was n't getting any younger , after all , and he 'd been a hard worker all his life . |
| 10 | He 'd been a social worker , then a deputy director of social services — he 'd been fired after the famous ‘ babyswap ’ scandal , but that was how he came to be taken up by FAMILY . |
| 11 | He had n't looked after her properly , he 'd been a bad father . |
| 12 | He spoke very warmly of his parents , but I felt that he 'd been a lonely child . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If he 'd been a Sikh it might have been different . |
| 15 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 16 | Really sad case , that , because he 'd been a fine man . |
| 17 | He 'd been a pharmaceutical salesman , mad keen on amateur dramatics . |