Example sentences of "'d [verb] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 3 | He 'd booked a good table at The Palace . |
| 4 | I 'd met the best , the most famous , and the richest , and they did n't have what this guy had , and I wanted it . |
| 5 | The one with the fine stripes looked slightly flashier , but he 'd made a better ironing job of the plain one . |
| 6 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
| 7 | He 'd said the best place for the people of Dynmouth was in their coffins . |
| 8 | I also thought I 'd written a better poem because I 'd struggled with the voice , forced myself to hear it again in my mind and to reply to it . |
| 9 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 10 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 11 | We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’ |
| 12 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
| 13 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 14 | And er and when that was been in the field whatever days , depending on the weather , if you 'd got a good dry summer well you 'd perhaps take it in in after a week , you see ? |
| 15 | And if you 'd got a good suit , you 'd take that , then fetch it out for the weekend , so they 'd looked decent , and when you took it back on Monday and he said I 'll have to drop you on that , Ah , so you wo n't this week . |
| 16 | I thought we 'd got a good team . |
| 17 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
| 18 | And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was . |
| 19 | The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day . |
| 20 | And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh . |
| 21 | He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ? |
| 22 | I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that |
| 23 | I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself . |
| 24 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 25 | I 'd had a good week . |
| 26 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 27 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 28 | Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him . |
| 29 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 30 | If I was a less trusting soul I 'd have said he 'd had a good lunch . |