Example sentences of "'d [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't understand why he 'd given up a job he clearly loved to come back here . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , I thought you 'd given up the notion of revenge . ’ |
| 3 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 4 | Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother . |
| 5 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 6 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 7 | If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said . |
| 8 | The reference call to the hotel , The Randolph — that 's what he 'd remembered clearest of all , really : he 'd looked up the telephone number and then been put through , on the extension given to him by his client , to the Deputy Manageress , who had promptly and effusively vouched for the bona fides of Rent-a-Car 's prospective customer . |
| 9 | After they 'd cooled off a bit , you 'd have to go and water them . |
| 10 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 11 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 12 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 13 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 14 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 15 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 16 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 17 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 18 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 19 | So if it was , you would n't know that of course if you 'd picked up the phone , would you ? |
| 20 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 21 | It were my other sister 's daughter 's eighteenth and she 'd booked up a party at the club . |
| 22 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 23 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 24 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'd rolled around a bit with Angela Brickell , ’ I said , ‘ and that 's where we come to the biggest Against . ’ |
| 26 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 27 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 28 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 29 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 30 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |