Example sentences of "'d [verb] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 2 | He was lying when he said he 'd checked the house . |
| 3 | ‘ You said you 'd made the house comfortable , ’ Vitor remarked , looking around , ‘ but you 've also made it — what 's the English phrase ? — a joy to behold . ’ |
| 4 | First she was terrified there was a burglar , then when she 'd searched the house from top to bottom she got mad and shoved me back to bed . |
| 5 | Fred said , ‘ The only other time he ever ordered it was the night you rang us up in Leeds to say you 'd got the house and we could move in by the week we were spliced . ’ |
| 6 | But erm most of the things that you will be de now the thing is about properties , that if you 've got a second property for example , or erm you know that 's not your primary residence , you would be liable to capital gain on a disposal , so if you 'd bought the house for ten thousand and you sold it five years later for twenty , then the gain er on that would be the twenty er the ten thousand that you 'd gained , less any indexation from nineteen eighty two , and they would then er er look at that as an allowance to use against it . |
| 7 | There was a pile of coffee pots , cutlery and rotten linen already in the garden that had been buried there by the waiter who 'd had the house before me ! |
| 8 | It was the first time Steve had spoken since they 'd entered the house . |
| 9 | Lorimer had taken charge of this before he 'd left the house . |
| 10 | At breakfast nothing had been said , which perhaps was n't unusual , but afterwards she 'd left the house without saying anything either . |
| 11 | They ate the sandwiches they 'd made before they 'd left the house , and then lay in their shelter and read two paper-backed books they 'd brought with them . |
| 12 | The sky was dark and threatening and Felipe had looked like that as he 'd left the house . |