Example sentences of "'d [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them .
2 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 .
3 We 'd heard the dogs ' barking spreading through the trees when they 'd first been unleashed .
4 Perhaps he 'd heard the rumours .
5 We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it .
6 If he 'd arranged the circumstances himself he could n't have done much better .
7 After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds .
8 A bright schoolboy , he 'd joined the Marines at seventeen and gone to Vietnam .
9 We 'd received a campaigns update from central office and had registered the big box pile up campaign with that campaign coordinator .
10 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 .
11 ‘ Well done , ’ said David to the superintendent after he 'd examined the scalds .
12 ‘ Tell the despatcher we 've stopped and are going back , ’ he said , when I 'd relayed the messages .
13 I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal .
14 ‘ If only I 'd recognized the signs of Bubbleshake contamination when I met him .
15 She 'd rang the police and they had n't heard of any .
16 I wish I 'd hidden the bits — I feel silly ripping it up for nothing .
17 Last night she 'd lifted the barriers to allow Dane in .
18 If I 'd caught the buggers I tell you , there would have been murder done . ’
19 I 'd forgotten the indulgences of that world .
20 Then we stopped as one of the Santa Claus girls had to go to the loo and anyway we 'd forgotten the leaflets they were supposed to dish out .
21 I 'd skirted the beds of leathery things bright with bloom and walked the sandy , oleander-lined drive .
22 Even to allow such images into her mind meant she 'd dropped the barriers too far — something she could n't afford to do if she wanted to survive this experience mentally intact .
23 ‘ After I 'd fed the hens , I could n't get out — the sheep had penned me in .
24 He 'd met the girls in a nightclub in Atlanta and took them back to his hotel to make the one film he did n't expect anyone else but him to see .
25 I thought I 'd saved the cuddles and there were n't any more .
26 By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds .
27 Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools
28 One day in a bar he ran into two of the people who 'd attended the meetings , Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher .
29 He was amusing and knowledgeable , and he 'd made no enemies .
30 Like a robot she 'd made the calls Steve should have made and the rest of the time she had walked the city , trying to be a tourist taking in all the sights .
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