Example sentences of "he 'd been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't wanted to take the four months ' pay from Nicolo , but he 'd been coldly adamant . |
| 2 | After his selection and Police College training he 'd been slightly surprised to find himself not to be a component of an irresistibly righteous machine , but a member of an organisation that was as flawed and human as any other . |
| 3 | Yet he 'd been incredibly gentle after she 'd hit him , and it was Leo 's face in her mind as she fell asleep , not Ryan 's . |
| 4 | He was only thirteen and he 'd been particularly close to his mother . |
| 5 | From nothing : in 1850 he 'd been just one of the hands at Wm Paul 's Tannery in Kirkstall Road . |
| 6 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 7 | He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket . |
| 8 | he 'd been round last Friday , on Thursday she rang |
| 9 | Maxim wondered why he was n't more shocked at the instinctive distrust implied by that decision , and sighed as he realised it was because he 'd been nearly six months in the atmosphere of Whitehall . |
| 10 | And er it was said that he he was he 'd been away ill . |
| 11 | He 'd been badly shocked last night . |
| 12 | He accepted he 'd been grossly stupid and foolhardy . |
| 13 | Talkies time , he 'd said , yet he 'd been curiously evasive . |
| 14 | His words might have been ambiguous , but the hackles rose on Rory 's neck as if he 'd been blatantly insulting . |
| 15 | He 'd been increasingly anxious ever since Roy Bliss 's unwelcome visit that morning . |
| 16 | He 'd been rather preoccupied . |
| 17 | He probably thought he 'd been rather smart but today he discovered you were supposed to be dead . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd been pretty sure that Annie would prove potentially harmful . |
| 19 | He 'd been so disinterested in her progress during six years of primary school that he 'd only ever visited the school once . |
| 20 | Probably because he 'd been so much on her mind , she instantly fell into dreaming of Adam , his dark fathomless eyes and granite features dominating her sleep . |
| 21 | There had been so much to admire in Ewan , even though he 'd been so self-centred . |
| 22 | He 'd been so adamant in Vienna about not looking ridiculous with the ‘ fat old Frau ’ and now he was suggesting productions that were totally unsuitable . |
| 23 | He 'd been so gentle that morning when he must have seen he had hurt her feelings , and she felt good inside that she had seen the more gentle , considerate side of him . |
| 24 | He 'd been so sickly from birth and Sarah ached with sadness to see her tiny stepbrother losing hold on life . |
| 25 | He 'd been so lucky , so figging lucky . |
| 26 | He 'd been so angry ; she had never seen him quite that way before . |
| 27 | No wonder he 'd been so eager to sign her on as Anna 's companion . |
| 28 | He 'd been so lovely , and her shoulder still burned where he 'd put a hand on it after the game . |
| 29 | And after he 'd been so kind , too . |
| 30 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |