Example sentences of "she 'd [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 2 | His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club . |
| 3 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 4 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
| 5 | She 'd gone for a walk . |
| 6 | Mrs Froggatt organised bring and buy sales to raise cash for the organisation , but after she 'd sent off a check for more than three hundred pounds she heard nothing more . |
| 7 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 8 | Maggie found herself staring directly into the eyes of the young man she 'd noticed at a setting loom on her first day . |
| 9 | She 'd felt like a princess . |
| 10 | In it , she confronted him with evidence she 'd unearthed of a conspiracy against her and accused him of being behind it . |
| 11 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 12 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |
| 13 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 14 | It all looked delightfully cosy , with an en-suite bathroom , but Kate backed out of the room as quickly as if she 'd walked into a pit full of rattlesnakes . |
| 15 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 16 | She 'd worked on a woman 's magazine . |
| 17 | She 'd worked as a prostitute long enough to know she 'd survive , but she did n't fancy six cocks one after the other without respite . |
| 18 | My mother was visiting someone who worked there whom she 'd known as a child . |
| 19 | A woman has saved a baby 's life using resuscitation techniques she 'd learned on a course just two weeks earlier . |
| 20 | She 'd got through a call to him on the radio-phone that Kaptan was safe . |
| 21 | She 'd got into a lot of trouble over many little things , for instance , her clothes in the changing room were being thrown down in a pool of water , and was soaking wet , she had to take them to matron to be dried , matron was cross . |
| 22 | Sometimes she 'd found it difficult to believe a word he said , but he had been there to meet her when she 'd arrived as a stranger . |
| 23 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
| 24 | She 'd died from a blow to her neck . |
| 25 | So I walked up to her , looked into her eyes , and close to she was as beautiful and warm as she 'd seemed from a distance . |
| 26 | And she , she wait , she made out she 'd driven on a road |