Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 2 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 3 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 4 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 5 | I thought you said you 'd gone for the evening , Rosalind . ’ |
| 6 | It really went to show that God was good ; when you 'd paid for the things you did and you were really sorry , He gave you something good to make it up to you . |
| 7 | The one you 'd booked for the summer had apparently dropped out . ’ |
| 8 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 9 | She reached down to the floor where her candle stood , and when she 'd groped for the matches , which proved , as always , astonishingly difficult to locate , she lit it . |
| 10 | She swept back a handful of Lucy 's hair and pinned it up , first on one side and then on the other ; but before she 'd reached for the scissors to begin , Charlie 's face appeared around the doorway . |
| 11 | Ever since he had spanked her that night in the bungalow at Moascar garrison , she 'd yearned for the cane . |
| 12 | The blonde braid had fallen over her shoulder , shining honey-gold against the vivid jade of the T-shirt dress she 'd worn for the trip out here . |
| 13 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 14 | ‘ Please , ’ she murmured as she climbed the steps to the fifth-floor Brooklyn Heights flat she 'd subleased for the summer , ‘ please , let this be an acceptance ! ’ |
| 15 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 16 | Oh Christ , she wanted to be fucked even more than she 'd hungered for the whip . |
| 17 | He remembered how she 'd sung for the passengers on the ship and how they 'd all liked her . |
| 18 | He came home to sleep and as soon as he woke after she 'd left for the Clinic , he went out . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd finished for the day , so I tied the rudder and then came up forward . ’ |
| 20 | When that did n't work out he went to Mal at Monad where they 'd gone for the villanelle . |
| 21 | They 'd gathered for the launch of the Celebrities Cookbook by Richard Wilson , who 's better known as the crusty and cantankerous Victor Meldrew . |
| 22 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
| 23 | ‘ That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’ |
| 24 | He reached for one of the sticks he 'd collected for the pheasant trap . |
| 25 | The act he 'd devised for the Easter Fete was a black mass . |
| 26 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 27 | There , he 'd worked for the Corps ' news service , been wounded , gone home to study journalism at college and ended up with the Associated Press . |
| 28 | ‘ Although I 'm almost certain Mills was murdered because he 'd worked for the KGB . ’ |
| 29 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 30 | When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle . |