Example sentences of "'d [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And there was a memo to John from yourself , tenth of Jan , that my manager has passed to me , it said you 'd given two options that you could go in on Saturday and erm |
2 | One of the burglars called at the house in Calverton Road , telling the pensioner he 'd won ten pounds . |
3 | She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’ |
4 | I 'd earned two shadows , bullnecks |
5 | I 'd dropped three stitches . |
6 | Brown had fallen miserably in love ( so he said ) with a girl named Betty Fowler , whom he 'd met one Friday evening at a hop held in the Oxford Town Hall , and already on their second meeting they had vowed a mutual , eternal love . |
7 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
8 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
9 | After the disappointment of Paris , when everyone kept reminding him how he 'd missed five kicks out of six in the Parc des Princes , there was bound to be a reaction from Hastings at Murrayfield . |
10 | Just because she 'd made one mistake … |
11 | She got a lodger and she , the lodger said she 'd made five phone calls . |
12 | They 'd made thirty-five pence last year , she said , which was considered good . |
13 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
14 | She 'd seen two men fighting in the street and seen them run past her . |
15 | He 'd strangled two children with his bare hands , then called the police to give himself up . |
16 | I wish I 'd cycled six miles home ! |
17 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
18 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
19 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
20 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
21 | Everyone was so encouraged , once we 'd done one part and realised how good it looked . |
22 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
23 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
24 | After we 'd done five songs they turned the disco on dead loud . ’ |
25 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
26 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
27 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
28 | Of course , I 'd overlooked one thing … ’ |
29 | Now do n't forget , that I said , that in spite of the fact that he 'd got one shoulder higher than the other , he was very attractive to women , and there is running through this story , the suggestion that maybe he was too friendly with Josephine . |
30 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |