Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 2 | There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors . |
| 3 | This was the man who 'd already demonstrated his wild , devil-may-care streak since her arrival in Malta only forty-eight hours ago . |
| 4 | It was a monologue called ‘ Good News ’ , in which Beattie enthused down the phone at great length to a young man who 'd apparently done her the most enormous good turn . |
| 5 | Although Ross was still obviously the same hard , unshakeable man who 'd always been master of his own emotions , it did seem to Laura that he was now acting in an oddly constrained manner . |
| 6 | I was just interested in whether you thought she disliked Nicola so much because she 'd started an affair with a man who 'd recently been her lover — you . |
| 7 | So here was this extremely awkward young man who 'd actually ploughed , had worked with horses , owned 40 acres and was anxious to write . |
| 8 | A man who 'd once been engaged to her sister . |
| 9 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |