Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd a terrible urge to shout , Fuck-all 's well up this turret , mate !
2 Oh I 'd a little workshop and used to make stuff .
3 " If it 's all the same to you , darling , I 'd a whole lot rather it did n't hurt . "
4 I 'd a proper I had a proper drill , oh you 're talking about the new ones ?
5 what they called a pink book , you 'd a pink
6 Oh I do n't know , you 'd a fresh horse every day .
7 And you did that and then you had to wait until the the machine came round again and that was you again , you 'd a whole day at that .
8 You 'd a bald head .
9 She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid .
10 Her parents would as lief have me as Humphrey , and she 'd a good deal rather . ’
11 give her a wee drop later Jean cos she 'd a good walk this morning you know and er now those Bramleys up there , okay ?
12 She 'd a tinkered face .
13 We 'd a full size lawn with a croquet and badminton .
14 We 'd a lovely garden .
15 And then we used to be playing top , we 'd a top right round the village , see how far we could go .
16 And if they 'd a bigger place than that there little rectory , there would n't be a stick of furniture neither ! ’
17 He 'd a French cocked-hat on his forehead , a bunch of lace at his chin A coat of the claret velvet , and breeches of brown doe-skin : They fitted with never a wrinkle ; his boots were up to the thigh !
18 He 'd a french cocked hat on his forehead , a bunch of at his chin , a coat of claret velvet and breeches of brown doe skin .
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