Example sentences of "[Wh pn] 'd [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English . |
| 2 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 3 | West Kensington itself was made up of rows of five-storey peeling stucco houses broken up into bed-sits that were mostly occupied by foreign students , itinerants and poor people who 'd lived there for years . |
| 4 | They took a chair which belonged to the eighteenth century English poet , Alexander Pope who 'd lived there while writing the first English translation of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 5 | Ostensibly it was the life story of an eighteenth-century naval officer who 'd whiled away his spare time documenting and researching contemporary erotica . |
| 6 | I did n't find out he was the artist who 'd done all of the paintings until the end of the conversation and that was basically what ended the conversation : I just ran off ! |
| 7 | Later in the week , the training officer put asterisks against the names of trainees who 'd achieved less than £2,000 worth of business through the whole week . |
| 8 | It had , in fact , been sent to a counsellor by a client who 'd moved away before finishing therapy . |
| 9 | Through her own trusting innocence she was alone with a man who 'd stated quite clearly that he wanted her . |
| 10 | Chairman there were three areas of concern , the longer term objective were of course the bypass , that is some way into the future , the more the media is , that is concerned with traffic calming the more comprehensive traffic calming would be the subject of some in depth study who 'd defined exactly what pieces of , of traffic are most suitable for that village , but one element and that was to do with |
| 11 | As they did detectives continued their search for the driver who 'd disappeared immediately after the crash . |
| 12 | We felt from this that there was , there was reasonable evidence to introduce this programme into our practice , and we , we looked at our patients erm at and , and we looked at all patients who 'd had moderately or well-differentiated transition cell carcinoma of the bladder at diagnosis , a non-invasive tumour , small , solitary , with a minimum follow up of one year . |
| 13 | In the gloom , she pictured the sad , mad people who 'd walked there . |
| 14 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
| 15 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
| 16 | ‘ Not then , no , because the scheme we 'd concocted was that my ‘ husband ’ was a soldier , who 'd died abroad , and everyone would , hopefully , have continued to believe it , if Phena had n't flounced off to England to discover her roots ! |
| 17 | Mike Ford then shot over the bar from thirty yards , and in the thirtieth minute , Graham Hogg was booked for a challenge on Lee Nogan ; Hogg who 'd performed so well at the heart of the Portsmouth defence . |
| 18 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 19 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 20 | A hundred and thirty of the people who 'd worked there volunteered to staff the new factory in France . |
| 21 | Such a drug , he suggests , would be not unlike crack , and the poor shmucks who were n't UMC would love it , while those who 'd worked so hard for their privileges would despise the short-cut : you 're either UMC or you are n't , simulacra wo n't do . |
| 22 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 23 | Janie 's mother , Angela Darling , clearly distraught , took time out to praise the police who 'd worked so hard on the investigation . |
| 24 | Dozens of police descended on a lay-by at Moreton Valence in Gloucestershire to move on a small convoy of New Age Travellers who 'd parked overnight . |