Example sentences of "'d [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I could n't understand why he 'd given up a job he clearly loved to come back here . ’ |
| 2 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 3 | If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said . |
| 4 | After they 'd cooled off a bit , you 'd have to go and water them . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 … ‘ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | It were my other sister 's daughter 's eighteenth and she 'd booked up a party at the club . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd rolled around a bit with Angela Brickell , ’ I said , ‘ and that 's where we come to the biggest Against . ’ |
| 11 | No a bit bigger seems to me if we 'd moved up a bit we would have had a bit more room . |
| 12 | It felt like they 'd missed out a stage or two . |
| 13 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
| 14 | Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’ |
| 15 | You 'd written out a cheque |
| 16 | It had seemed even more logical to choose this MP since he 'd built up a vast international organization devoted to security . |
| 17 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 18 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 19 | And already , at twenty-four , he 'd built up a formidable business , successfully fulfilling contracts all over the world . |
| 20 | Researchers could n't be sure radon was such a danger until they 'd built up a complete picture . |
| 21 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 22 | When Chris Oakey decided to create a set of life size figures for his A Level Art project , his teachers feared he 'd bitten off a bit more than he could chew . |
| 23 | And er quarter to eight er quarter to nine in the morning , all the commuters are running around half asleep , wish they 'd got up a bit earlier but they did n't . |
| 24 | And er when you 'd got on a bit you delivered the baby but the midwife was there to see you did n't make any mistakes and , and really to t teach you to do it . |
| 25 | Erm , I think possibly again , if you 'd got down a bit lower this sort of little rise in the ground there , that er that 's a , it 's erm what do you call it ? |
| 26 | Through nominees he 'd bought up a major holding in the company . |
| 27 | He realised that he 'd opened up a can of worms . |
| 28 | You could n't show up in a place like Adam 's Creek without a few questions being asked , Jed knew that , so he 'd dreamed up a story . |
| 29 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 30 | It did n't seem at all surprising that she 'd slowed down a little . |