Example sentences of "[verb] they 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I did n't know they 'd done any extra days . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean you really did n't know they 'd left ? |
| 3 | And then he just never went to school and they maintained they 'd got a private . |
| 4 | But when it became clear that the disagreement was becoming a hot issue , they gave way … only to find they 'd misinterpreted the producer 's fractured English . |
| 5 | The French police ran a check on fingerprints , and found they 'd got Puddephat . |
| 6 | The Selmer/Adams polyester was rock hard , and thick , and many of those who attempted a quick refinish ( thanks Jimi ! ) found they 'd bitten off more than they could chew . |
| 7 | Police say they 'd tried to flag down the stolen car and were following , not chasing it , when it crashed . |
| 8 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 9 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 10 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 11 | I imagined they 'd picked up their prisoners in sweeps of the town . |
| 12 | That they 've done what they 've said they 've done , and made a note on the things they 'd said they 'd done , but they had n't done . |
| 13 | Out of the three statements from fellow travellors read out to the coroner , non said they 'd had previous warnings from either the travel company or the foreign office that the region they were in had experienced previous Muslim fundamentalist acts of terrorism against visitors . |
| 14 | Oh they would just tell you some extraordinary story they 'd seen They 'd heard Seen a ghost or heard a ghost or a something . |
| 15 | I mean they were there at lunchtime when I came home and there was nobody with them so I assumed they 'd knocked off for lunch . |
| 16 | ‘ When Geoffrey rang last night , I assumed they 'd got more on him than that . |
| 17 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 18 | He was determined to let the clan see they 'd made no mistake in choosing him , and was off on a round of visits to all the main families , to impress them with his strength and intelligence , good sense and good humour . |
| 19 | The Danuese might have thought they 'd lost their leaders , that there was no one else , and that 's the moment a frizzy-haired messiah will choose to come upon the scene . |
| 20 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 21 | Hereford must have thought they 'd cracked it as well when they went and took the lead against Torquay United … |
| 22 | I would have thought they 'd offered . |
| 23 | I was just politely told they 'd left the area — " This number is no longer available as the special investigation team has left the area . " |
| 24 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 25 | Yes all their lives you know they 'd worked . |
| 26 | I figured they 'd infiltrated into Danu in ethnic costume , though their appearance was that of wild men from the outer reaches . |
| 27 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 28 | And their reaction when they discovered they 'd won ? |
| 29 | Swindon Crown Court heard they 'd consumed some 17 pints of beer . |
| 30 | So all they had to do then was go on to Hollyhead and they were refreshed they 'd had a meal so they would n't be dying of hunger . |