Example sentences of "'d [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 2 | Well , up until we 'd received this letter from er the new chairman designate , er Bob Reid , not seriously at all . |
| 3 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 4 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 5 | She 'd rescued this woman — his aunt presumably — from her crashed car , and gone for help . |
| 6 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 7 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 8 | ‘ We did n't know he 'd won this award until last month . |
| 9 | I thought we 'd won this time . ’ |
| 10 | They 'd picked this house without saying a word to him . |
| 11 | Well , she was n't leaving until she 'd sorted this muddle out . |
| 12 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 13 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 14 | She was n't a bad wife or anything like that , it was just that she 'd met this man at work , where she worked , they both worked at a dry cleaning place . |
| 15 | Yet since she 'd met this man … |
| 16 | A year later , when the war had started and Gordon was already in the Navy , she 'd met this Peter in Bond Street and he 'd invited her to have a drink , reaching for her elbow . |
| 17 | This was purely business , and for all the jolly camaraderie Kate was aware that most of the men she 'd met this evening had grave reservations about her ability to do her job well now that they 'd seen her . |
| 18 | and then for there 's this thing treating people who 'd ruined this guy 's marriage |
| 19 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 20 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 21 | And this astonished him , because he 'd seen this kind of thing at home . |
| 22 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 23 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |
| 24 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 25 | yeah , I really was quite , quite upset about it , well I do n't blame you for it I would n't of minded if she 'd said this morning when I 'd asked her |
| 26 | ‘ He does seem very nice , ’ she 'd murmured this morning , her cheeks flushed after receiving a phone call from the doctor . |
| 27 | and and she said something about through her interest in North American Indians she 'd written this novel . |
| 28 | And er anyway , when I got in from work last night , he 'd done carrots , sprouts , cabbage , mashed potatoes , and he 'd done this pie . |
| 29 | So if you feel at some stage that er this is n't for me then one of the things that we regularly hear is I wish I 'd done this course ten years ago . |
| 30 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |