Example sentences of "[Wh pn] 'd [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their dogs looked like wolves who 'd scoured a coal tip and sometimes they barked and the men shouted . |
| 2 | Trace Coley , who 'd lost a match and a lover in as many minutes , burst into tears . |
| 3 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 4 | Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’ |
| 5 | But I had to get together in one room , the admirals , the intelligence people , the civil servants , all the people who 'd played a critical role in advising her . |
| 6 | One of 35 Britons on the plane , Brian was part of a six person group who 'd planned a trek to Tharpu Chuli . |
| 7 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 8 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 9 | The profiles of outstanding men who 'd achieved a lot were supposed to give data for the development of new drugs . |
| 10 | He once defended a racist skinhead who 'd committed a burglary while on parole . |
| 11 | Police hunting the killer of seven-year-old , Nikki Allen , in Sunderland , want to question a mystery woman caller who claimed to know someone who 'd committed a murder . |
| 12 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | ‘ Ow long are you weeth us , Reeky ? ’ asked Claudia , who 'd had a secret crush on him in the old days and was appalled to see how grey and tense he looked . |
| 14 | He also told me about another ex-employee who 'd had a fatal motor accident … ’ |
| 15 | Erm our special needs provision was a erm a scale six member of staff with no prior experience who 'd had a rop ropy probation year anyway , |
| 16 | Just her regrets about the Rector 's wife who 'd had a miscarriage … |
| 17 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
| 18 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |
| 19 | Meredith thought it was the smile of the cat who 'd found a whole vat of cream . |
| 20 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 21 | One was a young man from the shop-floor who 'd got a metal splinter in his eye and the other was a secretary who had caught her heel in one of the open staircases and twisted her ankle . |
| 22 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 23 | And while I , I was there last year , erm , there was er , a case that came to court , about a man who 'd installed a ceiling fan in his kitchen . |
| 24 | A man 's been sent to prison for a year after telling an air stewardess he was a terrorist who 'd planted a bomb on a plane . |
| 25 | The other people who 'd drawn a horse , |
| 26 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |