Example sentences of "'d [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd dropped three stitches .
2 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 .
3 I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said !
4 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 ?
5 And er within eighteen months I 'd got three lorries running .
6 Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that .
7 If you worked four , you were worse off than if you worked three , you know , you 'd got three days on th er and you got you got three days dole , er unemployment pay .
8 ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’
9 Three girls , see you 're lucky really cos if they 'd had three boys an i , in a few times , you know , ten years time like , they 'd have all , the boys would of been growing up and they 'd have had cars stuck everywhere , you know what I mean ?
10 She was thirty-six when she cleared out and she 'd had three kids , but she still made younger women look and feel like there was no contest . ’
11 It was obvious from the moment she came into the house that Dawn , as I 'd immediately christened her ( after all , I 'd had three weeks to dream up the name ) , was a real character .
12 By this time , however , she 'd had three weeks in which to move from bitter , aching despair , to bitter , aching fury .
13 She 'd had three children and it showed .
14 If you 'd had three pound sixty to spend then fifty would be fifty degrees .
15 Could n't she see that this was not the same Silas she 'd known three years ago ?
16 Gentle began to follow , but the fall had left him aching in every joint , and he knew the chase was lost before he 'd hobbled three yards .
17 Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago .
18 Looking at me , you 'd never guess I 'd killed three people .
19 Her husband David was knocked from his bike and killed just ten days before Christmas last year by a man who 'd drunk three times the legal limit .
20 I mean it it sounds stupid , but a person I knew , she was about as stupid as i was as naive as I was , because er she was pregnant , her husband was n't away but she 'd got how many , five , four children , she 'd lost three children and she 'd got , then she had four , and then she found herself pregnant again .
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