Example sentences of "'d [adv] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 2 | He 'd just been made redundant , and none of the two of us are sleeping at night . |
| 3 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 4 | They got the idea when Rex , who 'd just been made redundant , was talking to a friend of his who was also out of work . |
| 5 | Rupert , who 'd just been appointed Tory Minister for Sport , eyed Mrs Sherwood back . |
| 6 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 7 | The farmer Colin French , who 'd already been prosecuted five times , was given a suspended jail sentence and banned from keeping four species of farm animal for fifteen years . |
| 8 | Because I 'd always been called skinny . |
| 9 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 10 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 11 | But Mike was hurting too much already from the blow that had split his nose ; he 'd never been hit that hard . |