Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 2 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
| 3 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 4 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 5 | You 'd given yourself to the highest bidder — ’ |
| 6 | This was the man she 'd given herself to , willingly , wholeheartedly , by some mysterious process of transmutation from acute dislike to ardent desire , in the wild heat of last night … dislike and distrust had dissolved in the drugging excitement of his arms . |
| 7 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 8 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 9 | The big dog used the new trick for getting out he 'd taught himself . |
| 10 | Where Emily had learned to thieve so skilfully I 'll never know — perhaps she 'd taught herself — but it was the niftiest piece of pilfering I 'd ever witnessed . |
| 11 | And course he 'd frightened himself and er I counted up to about eight , nine and ten I said to him , Look when you go inside that bloody gate now I said go straight into the office sit down and think for a minute where the hell are we all going to in this carry on ? |
| 12 | She 'd placed herself at his mercy . |
| 13 | The stairs were cold and draughty and the light was n't good , but she 'd placed herself so that the agency 's receptionist would be able to see her through the glass-panelled door if she should happen to glance up . |
| 14 | How would he be if on one of those Saturday mornings when he 'd hung around the rectory she 'd recognized herself the bitterness beneath his grin ? |
| 15 | Certainly I 'd impressed myself . |
| 16 | A fireplace , tapestries on the bed , a modern four-poster she 'd designed herself . |
| 17 | Werewolf filled me in on his blitzkreig across the Exhilarator course and had to admit that he 'd enjoyed himself . |
| 18 | I thanked him for dinner and said how much I 'd enjoyed myself . |
| 19 | She 'd enjoyed herself tonight , had n't she ? |
| 20 | He blushed to think of how shamelessly he 'd paraded himself when he 'd had Judith on his arm ; how he 'd joked that she loved him for his cleanliness , and for his taste in bidets . |
| 21 | But she noticed he did n't put the map away until he 'd located himself precisely . |
| 22 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 23 | As far as anybody knew , he 'd mangled himself while helping a friend with some car repairs . |
| 24 | She 'd committed herself to God 's ways , and to God 's people , and God directs her , and she comes to the field of Boaz And there was none more able to meet her need . |
| 25 | She 'd hanged herself over pressure of work and the fact she was terrified about her first essay . |
| 26 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 27 | After what happened with Mortimer , she 'd voted herself off men for life . |
| 28 | First , he 'd caught himself being scrutinised through binoculars , and then heard himself being discussed with such ribald curiosity by the staff ! |
| 29 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 30 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |