Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] 'd [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 2 | ‘ Did you think I 'd kicked the bucket , Ma ? ’ |
| 3 | Really , Tom , the way you 're defending her , anyone would think I 'd tortured the girl ! |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd sat the Knowledge Exam , Aunt Minna , ’ she snaps , after this lady has sighed , not for the first time : ‘ So many traffic lights if you go this way … so many … |
| 5 | Leonora sat up , rubbing her eyes as she switched off the lamp , so exhilarated to find she 'd slept the night through that she was less cast down than expected to find her identity was still a mystery . |
| 6 | But when it became clear that the disagreement was becoming a hot issue , they gave way … only to find they 'd misinterpreted the producer 's fractured English . |
| 7 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 8 | We cut into the same ventricle twice , believing we 'd found the other one . |
| 9 | ‘ He says he 'd won the right to kill . ’ |
| 10 | Patterson was one of the last out , but it seemed he 'd got the message about his visitor as he hurried towards his office without a sideways glance . |
| 11 | What made him think she 'd visited the palazzo before ? |
| 12 | She could have tried the blackmail approach on the Saturday afternoon ; then , when Steen cut up rough , she realized she 'd overstepped the mark and brought in Charles as a go-between to patch things up . |
| 13 | Anyone would have thought I 'd lowered the resale value of the van or something . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to do a scene with an actor playing Big Ears and was thrilled when I was told I 'd got the part , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Had n't she thought she 'd seen the last of Rourke Deveraugh ? |
| 16 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |
| 17 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 18 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 19 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 20 | I was just politely told they 'd left the area — " This number is no longer available as the special investigation team has left the area . " |
| 21 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 22 | At Bristol Crown Court Kelly claimed he 'd forgotten the knife was still in his hand and had only meant to punch . |
| 23 | He reckoned he 'd earned the right to be cynical . |
| 24 | My first thought when I heard I 'd got the part was : ‘ Bang goes my knighthood ! ’ ’ |
| 25 | I assured him I was only on a romantic , misty-eyed mission , though secretly I was wishing I 'd sent the birthday card instead to Winston Place . |
| 26 | you know you 'd produced the shirt but produce er , and there would be lots and lots and lots of these people , these very skilled men |
| 27 | As a final straw , on going to change Perdita discovered she 'd got the curse , which was invariably as bloody as Culloden on the first day . |
| 28 | She was the only witness among many people at the party who alleged she 'd seen the four set upon Mr Johnson with knives . |
| 29 | It 's understood he 'd met the victim some weeks before in the Fleet Street area of Swindon . |
| 30 | The court heard he 'd spent the day hunting and had been drinking to keep up his body warmth . |