Example sentences of "she 'd [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 2 | I was stuck there like a flying buttress between the floor and the pillar , and Jamie was still gibbering away to the girl about the sound a Triumph makes and the high-speed runs she 'd done up the side of Loch Lomond at night . |
| 3 | When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel . |
| 4 | Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times . |
| 5 | If she 'd jumped into the water she 'd have made a splash . ’ |
| 6 | They did n't see the second passenger because she 'd fallen into the well between the front and back seats . |
| 7 | They had to stop the machines because everybody was laughing see with Tara on the floor so Ann did n't even know she 'd fallen off the chair . |
| 8 | She lay on the floor where she 'd fallen in the gas attack . |
| 9 | She was hungry and sorry she 'd turned off the radio . |
| 10 | It had echoed after she 'd left him , as she 'd turned into the archway in the wall and passed through the shrubbery of azaleas and magnolias and tree mallows , as she 'd passed through the drawing-room and the hall . |
| 11 | Dameta had taken one look at her heated countenance when she 'd emerged from the pleasance , and had ordered her to bed , muttering about fevers and the carelessness of wandering about in gardens without a mantle . |
| 12 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 13 | Why only yesterday she 'd waved across the street to Clarice . |
| 14 | Yesterday evening , just before she 'd bolted to the safety of her bedroom , he really had seemed different , more … relaxed , human . |
| 15 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 16 | Nancy was standing in the middle of the yard with her hands to her face , shouting about a black bogey she 'd seen at the window of the hayloft . |
| 17 | She recognized all the people she 'd seen at the dinner table in the Llandogger Trow and at the Frolic . |
| 18 | After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese . |
| 19 | Watching , Jess was reminded of a pack of alley cats she 'd seen at the rear of Samson 's smithy one night . |
| 20 | It unfolded from a slim oblong into a sheet-sized square that flapped and fought in the wind and did n't bear much resemblance to what she 'd seen of the City so far . |
| 21 | She loved Hyde Park because it was the nearest thing she 'd seen to the country side since she had arrived in the capital . |
| 22 | Until that last few minutes , when she 'd stood in the doorway of the room and watched Nigel making love to another girl . |
| 23 | I laughed , and she 'd gone off the line before I could ask her about her health . |
| 24 | Er it were in paper about this er this woman she 'd gone to the hospital and she must have been there longer than she thought , and so she 'd got her car clamped and it was thirty pound to have it off but |
| 25 | Donna told her sister what had happened in Ireland , the information she 'd accumulated about The Hell Fire Club and also what she 'd found in the library in Edinburgh . |
| 26 | But something had happened when she 'd touched on the subject of Tony . |
| 27 | From this a spiral staircase led upwards to a similar-sized room with windows on all sides , and Sabine realised she must be in the tower she 'd noticed on the way in . |
| 28 | SHe 'd lived on the street too long . |
| 29 | She 'd lived in the apartment in the fashionable Latin Quarter for four years , with her wealthy American boyfriend , Richard Knorr . |
| 30 | A successful model she 'd lived in the city for four years . |