Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |
| 2 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 3 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 5 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 6 | By my reckoning , if I 'd steered anything like a true course , the Land Rover was way along the road to the right , but it was pointless and impossible to reach it . |