Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 2 | Anyway , I thought you 'd given up the notion of revenge . ’ |
| 3 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 4 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 5 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |
| 6 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 7 | In the event Mazzin was after the notebooks we 'd stuffed down the front of our pyjamas . |
| 8 | The day after he 'd nailed up the door of the lavatory in the yard she used the indoor one straight after him . |
| 9 | ‘ But why , once you 'd found out the truth about Ryan and me , did n't you drop your custody claim immediately ? |
| 10 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 11 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 12 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |