Example sentences of "'d [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot did n't know what a banana tasted like , though she 'd heard Mrs Parvis talk about them often enough . |
| 2 | One man said he 'd heard Berners wanted to put a huge siren on the top . |
| 3 | I 'd heard North Shore aficionados reminiscing about the ten-point tube Pottz had caught here back in '82 . |
| 4 | In the end Maggie dragooned four Australian chaps , and a Cockney girl who 'd volunteered as soon as she 'd heard help was needed . |
| 5 | I 'd heard Dad and Eva in the bar analysing the performance as if it were Miles Davis 's farewell appearance . |
| 6 | She 'd heard stories about people being attacked and their handbags stolen and so decided not to walk across town alone . |
| 7 | He 'd heard stories about him in Calcutta and half expected something of the sort . |
| 8 | I 'd heard stories of women being in labour for twelve or fifteen hours with their first child so I was quite pleased . |
| 9 | He 'd heard sounds he did n't like and had n't heard before . |
| 10 | Theodora wondered if she 'd heard Gilbert aright . |
| 11 | A few seconds later Susan came bursting in as she had been upstairs when she 'd heard Maggie 's voice . |
| 12 | He 'd heard loads of acceleration and loads of noise . |
| 13 | It was the first time in her life she 'd heard Frank say something bold to his father . |
| 14 | They 'd staggered past a dozen rabbit-holes , calling down into the gloom , before they 'd heard Nooty 's voice answering them . |
| 15 | a gift for the babe he 'd heard cry . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd heard rumours , but discounted them . |
| 17 | Randy , going amazingly steady for him , had spent the fortnight screwing Trace Coley , who was as pretty as she was spoilt , because he 'd heard rumours that Kevin was thinking of including him in his team next year . |
| 18 | Sarah said , ‘ We 'd heard rumours . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd heard rumours that the military were planning to declare martial law . |
| 20 | But what er , I said , told Pete because I had another call when you were at lunch I think and erm he said he 'd heard rumours that we were looking for somebody . |
| 21 | He 'd heard men in the bar talking about her . |
| 22 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 23 | I had a little Fender lap-steel guitar , and I 'd heard bottleneck players and blues players and I kept trying to play like that and I just could n't figure it out . |
| 24 | Well my husband was out o on strike and I 'd erm got two babies , a year and ten months , and I felt that I had to go and get a job and I was desperate so I 'd heard people talking about these things as they did so I thought well I 've got to do something . |
| 25 | One of the artistes , as she 'd heard Charlie call them . |
| 26 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd heard scratchings , that was it . |
| 28 | She 'd been shocked when she 'd heard Héloise was receiving treatment , even though Gaston 's letters had been positive and optimistic on the subject . |
| 29 | Under such influence he 'd heard rationalists confess their devotion to tabloid astrologies ; heard atheists lay claim to heavenly visitations ; heard tales of psychic siblings , and prophetic deathbed pronouncements . |
| 30 | She 'd heard Lucy at meetings , fielding worries , steering the conversation around the reefs and sandbanks of ego and uncertainty . |