Example sentences of "they 'd [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they 'd met Sadie . |
| 2 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 3 | There had been a moon when they 'd first arrived , but the clouds had come while they were chopping wood , and the rain while they 'd cooked dinner on the two little primus stoves . |
| 4 | Sick of men being censured for their advances towards women JOHN HIND and STEVEN MOSCO told the papers they 'd formed MVTR : Men For Verbal And Tactile Rights . |
| 5 | They 'd eaten peanuts in the Store , of course . |
| 6 | Suddenly , as we were walking on , we heard the dogs barking in that frantic , menacing way that could only mean they 'd given chase . |
| 7 | But surely not as furious as he would have been afterwards , if they 'd given way to the temptations of their flesh ? |
| 8 | They 'd seen Aqib working away with his finger-nails while holding the ball in his other hand with the seam crosswise . |
| 9 | After their reconstruction , 35 witnesses called the police saying they thought they 'd seen Eila . |
| 10 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 11 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 12 | Men would n't forget easily when they 'd seen Lucille . |
| 13 | Grant saw them immediately , traversing the same passage they 'd seen Forster and Lawton follow . |
| 14 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 15 | RAF corporal John Williams and his wife Selina had told the court they 'd seen cocks fighting … as they drove past the layby . |
| 16 | They 'd seen Miss Lavant on the promenade and about the town , always walking slowly , sometimes with a neat wicker basket . |
| 17 | Little wonder they 'd created chemistry together . |
| 18 | I 'd often see birds with gut or wire wrapped around their necks or wings , or looking ill because , as I discovered later , they 'd swallowed lead shot which the anglers used to weight their lines . |
| 19 | Six years earlier they 'd played brother and sister in another soap opera , Skyways . |
| 20 | Rather , they 'd selected newspapers which , while endowed with authoritative reputations , were sympathetic to the malai government — in a nutshell , quality right-wing newspapers which were n't soft on Communism . |
| 21 | The man had spent about thirty minutes behind the wheel of a Land Rover Discovery like this one … they 'd followed Geoff 's normal route from Banbury to the village of Mollington , onto Cropredy , then back into Banbury . |
| 22 | And it and it 's emergency hospital on it , and I mean they 'd flown doctors out from Aberdeen , and medics off other platforms round about . |
| 23 | They 'd stopped firing . |
| 24 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 25 | When they 'd gone Dee-Dee came in , as she often did now , to drink coffee over the sorted clippings . |
| 26 | When they 'd gone Maggie gathered up the rest of the dishes and piled them in the sink . |
| 27 | After they 'd gone Sukey paced up and down sipping Evian water . |
| 28 | After they had gone , he said , he could n't remember whether they 'd said goodbye ; whether they had wrapped their arms around their children for a last loving embrace . |
| 29 | They 'd built estates after the war with no amenities at all and they did n't learn from that either . |
| 30 | And in the Bible it 's recorded that for example there are some cases where there was a big storm and they lost sight of land and all the sailors er promptly panicked because once they 'd lost sight of land they had n't got a clue where they were . |