Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I work for the same pre project as Verity and I worked with five , fifteen , sixteen year old boys , just yesterday , and they were one of the best groups I 'd ever worked with because |
| 2 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 3 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 4 | He 'd had the most compelling eyes she 'd ever encountered . |
| 5 | Even if he did have the most compelling eyes she 'd ever seen — and a body to make the gods jealous . |
| 6 | Pushing aside the imposed conventions , the restraints and inhibitions she 'd always accepted as right and proper , necessary even , she pressed herself against him . |
| 7 | Those were words she 'd so desperately wanted to hear . |
| 8 | She remembered her father 's words after he 'd blamed Ace for his son 's death ; words she 'd never repeated to anybody . |
| 9 | They were the hardest words she 'd ever had to say . |
| 10 | Exercising his body slowly and with care in the practice court , Lucien was aware that , despite the cross words he 'd just had with Azmaveth , he was actually content in his new surroundings . |
| 11 | Wondered if he could imagine the semi-asleep furies he 'd already reawakened . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I think under the circumstances I 'd better keep silent . ’ |
| 13 | Vainly some remaining logical part of her mind sought excuses but was drowned by the sheer surge of basic responses she 'd never known she possessed . |
| 14 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 15 | It is the fact that if you change the goalposts you 'd better make sure the ball still goes between 'em . |
| 16 | The bath and basin were pink and there were bottles and jars of bath salts and essences she 'd never even heard of . |
| 17 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 18 | One hurricane was much the same as another to me after the two weeks I 'd just had , and I slept right through it . |
| 19 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 20 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 21 | and there she 'd be , strumming away , singing about places she 'd never seen and was n't likely to , rivers and mountains and islands in the sun . |
| 22 | His touch on her skin , the intimate awakening of his lips and fingers in places she 'd never even contemplated being awakened , the indescribable , explosive response he 'd aroused inside her . |
| 23 | We were feeling rather disgruntled at how many good films we 'd obviously missed when a man came on to the stage to read the nominations for one of the categories . |
| 24 | But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere . |
| 25 | there were five red and gold crackers on the starched , white cloth and all the presents were ready in the old pillowcases they 'd all used for years at Christmas . |
| 26 | This union made Jack Straw in no doubt , and the Labour Party , that on their election the compulsory element of C C T will be removed , and if they had any ideas they 'd better forget 'em . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's happened , Mr Gooseneck ? ’ asked Amiss , when he had worked his way through the first stage of what was one of the best breakfasts he 'd ever had in his life . |
| 28 | In all his years he 'd never known an August day quite like it . |
| 29 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 30 | And things like writing leaflets in a way you know that comes up in meetings we 'd better write a leaflet and the response usually 's , Oh n gosh we ca n't do things like that you know , we ca n't speak in public , we ca n't write leaflets and in fact we do you know we find ourselves achieving these things and and I mean I think men really their attitude has really changed over the months . |