Example sentences of "we 'd [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we 'd cleared the shop out and put the stuff in the fridge , I used to all , scrub all round all the ta you know , the shelves round the sides and clean the scale down and the bacon machine and I used to scrape the block with a proper scraper . |
| 2 | ‘ After Munich I thought we 'd saved the day . |
| 3 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 4 | This is our actual workload and this is what it would have happened if we 'd followed the M R C er protocols . |
| 5 | When we 'd checked the recording we 'd heard Sinatra singing ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 6 | Even before we 'd exchanged a word , I knew that she would let me do anything I wanted to her . |
| 7 | Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake . ’ |
| 8 | I knew we 'd made a mistake as soon as we 'd … we 'd … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up . |
| 10 | I was glad we 'd made an impression . |
| 11 | What else is there to do in Kimblesworth , we 'd asked the taxi driver on the way from Durham railway station ? |
| 12 | Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels . |
| 13 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 14 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 15 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 16 | We 'd joined a demo of people who wanted to put the wall back up and return to communism ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’ |
| 18 | We 'd heard the dogs ' barking spreading through the trees when they 'd first been unleashed . |
| 19 | We talked a bit more , about when we 'd heard the news , and so forth . |
| 20 | At least twice a week we 'd heard the sermons broadcast from a nearby mosque and were both sure that the preacher was Sheikh Fadlallah , one of the main spiritual leaders of Hezbollah . |
| 21 | ‘ We thought we 'd denied the wolves a good meal . |
| 22 | The national spotlight was on us — and it appeared to most of us that we 'd missed an open goal . |
| 23 | That low , dishonest decade was when we broke free of our parents , banished the Fifties , discovered that we 'd missed the Sixties , and tried to make the best of it with an orgy of revolting clothes , tasteless music and formless anomie . |
| 24 | I was beginning to think that we 'd missed the boat , even though we knew in our heart of hearts that the Lord wanted us in some form of full-time capacity . |
| 25 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 26 | We had Stevenage Town Hall on the Friday , The Marquee on the Saturday morning and Saturday evening we had the Brummel Club in Bromley which was David 's home town at that time — we 'd received a hell of a lot of publicity for that one . |
| 27 | We 'd received a tip-off about a shipment of cocaine due in at Nice aboard a South American freighter , so when it was unloaded we were able to apprehend the gang without much of a struggle . |
| 28 | We 'd received a campaigns update from central office and had registered the big box pile up campaign with that campaign coordinator . |
| 29 | I , I forgotten that it was Justine , I , it just threw me a bit that erm , erm , Nick asked me to let you know that we were here and that we 'd received the chairs . |
| 30 | As we 'd guessed the Jihad had nicked the negotiator . |