Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No apparently I 'd gone in the bog , I was n't feeling bad or anything . |
| 2 | Wisps of rumour I 'd heard in the cafes started to fall together . |
| 3 | I the work I 'd done in the past the training I 've had the experience I 've had with Hector and his work that was all leading up to that . |
| 4 | So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office . |
| 5 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 6 | After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I came down on impulse , but as soon as I got here I wished I 'd stayed in the house . |
| 8 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 9 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 10 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 11 | During our journey on the Northern Line I 'd sketched in the background to his coming to England in ‘ 38 , fleeing the Nazis . |
| 12 | I put on some gold dangly earrings I 'd found in the bottom of my bag and came out feeling a new woman . |
| 13 | I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood . |
| 14 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I had n't realised quite how much I 'd got in the habit of the kind of organised chaos we worked under at St Margaret 's . |
| 15 | A glass I 'd left in the kitchen in the morning was on the bedside table — with a drop of wine in it . |
| 16 | In New York I 'd sat in the winter sun on wooden steps at South Street pier and swapped cards with an old girlfriend , now a free-lance writer . |
| 17 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 18 | You used to have a little book and er the grocer would write it down what you 'd had in the book you see and then you had to pay for it on th at the weekend . |
| 19 | I just assumed you 'd left in the morning . |
| 20 | She lay on the floor where she 'd fallen in the gas attack . |
| 21 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 22 | Until that last few minutes , when she 'd stood in the doorway of the room and watched Nigel making love to another girl . |
| 23 | She 'd lived in the apartment in the fashionable Latin Quarter for four years , with her wealthy American boyfriend , Richard Knorr . |
| 24 | A successful model she 'd lived in the city for four years . |
| 25 | She stood staring after his lithe figure , gripped by the same sense of anguish and loss that she 'd felt in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 26 | She was still wearing the thin cotton dress that she 'd worn in the prison hospital , but now there was a shawl around her shoulders as well . |
| 27 | Behind her diamond eyes , Jezrael was seeing the plants she 'd maimed in the name of cultures . |
| 28 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 29 | Mrs Lennox placed some sliced corned beef on the table along with some griddle scones she 'd had in the larder wrapped in a cloth . |
| 30 | Once she 'd finished in the bathroom , she hurried downstairs to collect her shawl . |