Example sentences of "[ex0] 'd [be] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ There 'd been two heads on those pillows , ’ agreed Ethel , ‘ and two bodies between those sheets , however hard they tried to disguise it . ’ |
2 | We were told that previously , when dogs were allowed , there 'd been problems , so they decided to stop letting them in . |
3 | No doubt there 'd been the usual spate of Friday night burglaries , too . |
4 | ‘ As a result , we 've had an awful lot of letters from people saying there 'd been an oversight on their part , ’ says an outwardly cheerful Simpson . |
5 | The promised home help had n't turned up despite several letters , and there 'd been no sign of the district nurse over the weekend . |
6 | I wanted to ask if she had died peacefully , whether they had used a syringe driver , if there 'd been anyone to comfort her . |
7 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
8 | When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend . |
9 | There 'd been a photograph of it in the paper , across someone 's hedge , its wings in a tree . |
10 | When Gloria complained , there 'd been a tiff and they 'd had to leave . |
11 | If the three arrows had all had flights … if there 'd been no wind … |
12 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
13 | If there 'd been any more trouble , we would just have drawn our staffs and knocked all hell out of them . |
14 | There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons . |
15 | If you could call it afternoon when there 'd been no lunch . |
16 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
17 | There 'd been a ceremony called ban pasāi , the entering of the forest . |
18 | But in times gone by , there 'd been a feast at ban pasāi ; the women had brought rice and huge copper pans to the forest . |
19 | In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest . |
20 | There 'd been a frost in the night , but now in the mid-afternoon the sun on our backs was strong and warm . |
21 | At this end of the village the night had been quiet , but in the Untouchable quarter to the west , there 'd been quite a kerfuffle . |
22 | There 'd been no call for him to attend . |
23 | There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child . |
24 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
25 | There 'd been a thing about it in the paper . |
26 | It was grey , and strangely motionless , as if there 'd been a sudden rush of concrete to his head , |
27 | And suddenly the air seemed deadened , as if there 'd been an explosion . |
28 | We all ended up staying at this inn about five miles down the road , and in the morning I was woken up really early by a phone call from Andrew Love , one of the Memphis Horns , who told me there 'd been an accident , and he was just checking to see if I was in my room . |
29 | Back at the start of March there 'd been a shake . |
30 | There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock . |