Example sentences of "'d be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 2 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 3 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 4 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 5 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 6 | He 'd been told various stories that had supplied small but interesting details about Mandru 's personality and private life . |
| 7 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 8 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 9 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 10 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
| 11 | Tonight , only a few minutes earlier , he 'd been following handwritten signs down a service passageway to the toilets when , for one brief half-second , he 'd seen a local councillor emerging through the doorway with the head of a pig on his shoulders . |