Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] 'd [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 2 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 3 | At Cromcruach he 'd met a mechanic named Mike , who seemed in a terrible state . |
| 4 | long , very nice , very posh , erm I do n't know what me dad 's is like , er me mum was laughing er yesterday erm with er doing all this work she 'd done a load of washing and pegged it all out and when she 'd got in from work dad had ironed it all |
| 5 | He once defended a racist skinhead who 'd committed a burglary while on parole . |
| 6 | He 'd bet twenty.dollars she 'd had a fender bender and that the car looked like a concertina . |
| 7 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |
| 8 | Shannon had never been able to believe that ; as a child she 'd seen a photograph of her father , and even then she 'd been stunned to silence by his incredible good looks . |
| 9 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 10 | In five minutes she 'd fashioned a ring out of the wire . |
| 11 | In despair , I told my husband I 'd bought a book on how to cure children 's sleep problems . |
| 12 | At one point she 'd given a talk on Sky TV about all the signs to look for in a youngster abusing solvents . |
| 13 | One of 35 Britons on the plane , Brian was part of a six person group who 'd planned a trek to Tharpu Chuli . |
| 14 | On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street . |
| 15 | There was something unique about a hospital over the Christmas period , and most years he 'd made a point of working for as much of it as he could . |
| 16 | Just her regrets about the Rector 's wife who 'd had a miscarriage … |
| 17 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 18 | She 'd always considered herself so strong , so immune to the temptations of the flesh ; yet last night she 'd discovered a depth of passion within her that had shaken her profoundly . |
| 19 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 20 | Last night he 'd gone a work . |
| 21 | Says Lt Watts , a Northern Ireland veteran : ‘ Before Bosnia I 'd seen a couple of bodies in road accidents but that was just it . |
| 22 | The other people who 'd drawn a horse , |
| 23 | Last week they 'd shared a bottle of champagne to celebrate the birth of the seventh grandchild . |
| 24 | When he said that about kidneys and tigers I 'd felt a shock of fear . |
| 25 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 26 | And while I , I was there last year , erm , there was er , a case that came to court , about a man who 'd installed a ceiling fan in his kitchen . |
| 27 | But Maggie had heard him draw notes out of it which rent the air with their sadness , and through his music she 'd seen a side of him he 'd kept hidden from the world . |
| 28 | Before I 'd been salvaged by Martinho and Mrs Goreng they 'd had a Frenchman and a Philadelphian about three years previous who 'd written uncomfortable stuff about starving kids , flattened villages , and summary executions . |
| 29 | London Irish thought they 'd scored a try here … the ref tho rightly gave a knock on … and the cherry and whites rolled on to take the lead with a penalty from Martin Roberts … another penalty apiece made it six three to Gloucester at half-time … but they deserved more … the forwards were fired up but so too was the exiles defence which took a fair old hammering … the turning point came at the start of the second half when referee David Matthews awarded Gloucester a penalty try … |
| 30 | Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind . |