Example sentences of "'d [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty ! |
| 2 | The umbrella group we 'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance , but the name still meant something . |
| 3 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd feel a little bit of pity for his mother and the labrador he 'd owned at eight , awe at the dead pop stars and disgust at the lack of fashion and the bad music played for the occasion . |
| 5 | Nathan thought of the shotgun locked under his chin ; he 'd held himself so rigid that night that he 'd ached for three days afterwards . |
| 6 | She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas . |
| 7 | He told me I should be grateful as this was the first Sunday lunch-time down his local that he 'd missed in five years . |
| 8 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 9 | Or they might put her on a prison ship to Australia , as they 'd done with two girls from St Jude 's a couple of months ago , because — on those farms where the transported convicts worked all chained together — there was a shortage of women . |
| 10 | At one time it looked like everything we 'd done in twenty years was going to be spread out on the table — and that included sating up a group to destabilise our closest ally if it got needed . |
| 11 | In reality , though , she 'd felt like one of the walking wounded . |
| 12 | The welcome from son and wife was the first warmth I 'd felt in seven days . |
| 13 | As soon as she 'd got over one pregnancy she was in it again was n't she ? |
| 14 | £20 was all he 'd got for one beast . |
| 15 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 16 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 17 | That had been an awful tea they 'd had at five o'clock ; two slices of bread and fat , a slab of hard cake and a bowl of milk ; then nothing else , only a drink of water , if they wanted one , before they came to bed , and it only half-past seven . |
| 18 | But the Guider and all the Pack learned later on about her meeting with the stranger on the seat , because at the next Pack Meeting the Guider read out a letter from Mr. Bishop , the estate agent , which said the Earl of Ferngrove had given special instructions that the Brownie Guide Pack could continue to use the Park whenever they wished , as he was quite satisfied , thanks to a chat he 'd had with one of them , that they were very careful not to leave litter about in the Park . |
| 19 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 20 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 21 | He 'd retired at fifty five , to run this er small holding we 'd got you see ? |
| 22 | He 'd , he 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 23 | He 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 24 | Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed . |
| 25 | Cut adrift from nearly everything I 'd known before seven , I turned inward and invented story games to play alone . |
| 26 | I 'd walked into one , as Harry had . |
| 27 | If he 'd driven at 40 miles an hour he would have driven straight past . |
| 28 | THREE yachtsmen were plucked from the Atlantic yesterday after they 'd clung for seven hours to the hull of their overturned racing sloop . |
| 29 | I 'd gone through three packets of tissues from the canteen , and a flunkey had been dispatched to Underwoods to buy me a large box of Men 's Size . |
| 30 | And when we 'd gone along fifteen kilometres we 'd gone up by four point eight metres . |