Example sentences of "we 'd [vb pp] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 2 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 3 | We 'd joined a demo of people who wanted to put the wall back up and return to communism ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’ |
| 5 | We 'd received a tip-off about a shipment of cocaine due in at Nice aboard a South American freighter , so when it was unloaded we were able to apprehend the gang without much of a struggle . |
| 6 | We had Stevenage Town Hall on the Friday , The Marquee on the Saturday morning and Saturday evening we had the Brummel Club in Bromley which was David 's home town at that time — we 'd received a hell of a lot of publicity for that one . |
| 7 | Monika said : ‘ We developed a deep friendship and one night after we 'd drunk a lot of rum at my house , he tried to kiss me . |
| 8 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 9 | We 'd got a temp by now who eyed Malcolm through a haze of blue eyeshadow and tapped on the typewriter with fingernails like goose quills . |
| 10 | ‘ He did once say to me that we did n't know what we 'd got a hold of . |
| 11 | And we I tell you we 'd got a couple of hundred in ours . |
| 12 | We discovered that we 'd got a lot of unnecessary parts — things that were over-indulgent — so we chucked 'em out . ’ |
| 13 | just when we got back off holiday we 'd got a letter from |
| 14 | I wheedled a look out of her after we 'd shared a bottle of wine last night . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 'd had a couple of years to put the break-up into perspective and I know , personally , I was missing the lads and the buzz I used to get from songs like ‘ Suspect Devices ’ and ‘ Straw Dogs ’ . |
| 16 | one and we 'd had a chat for a long , long time and I said to him afterwards , I was able to understand everything he said ! |
| 17 | That kind of hurt because we 'd had a relationship for nine years . |
| 18 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 19 | So serene , in fact , that after we 'd had a meal at the bungalow and a few drinks my mother did something she 'd never done before . |
| 20 | H. P. Some people would get a bottle of beer — we 'd had a lot of fellows come out of the army and they were fond of their drink and there 's no doubt that they could get it . |
| 21 | Cos we 'd had a recce by then and had a look round and you see . |
| 22 | They are reputed to have said , ‘ If we 'd had a telegram like that , we 'd have gone to the moon . ’ |
| 23 | We 'd spent a couple of days practising the relay . |
| 24 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 25 | Somebody wanted to buy it as a non-worker but I said well I said we 'd ordered a part for it so |