Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] 'd [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she 'd had a bit of a go at Bob and er |
| 2 | so you 'd got a piece that shape , half new one |
| 3 | Perhaps they 'd had a row or something . |
| 4 | Oh so they 'd made a mistake . |
| 5 | or and apparently he 'd lost a strip . |
| 6 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 7 | Except somehow he 'd made a mistake , picked the wrong woman . |
| 8 | ‘ I could see something was there ; Bernard had the persistence to obtain the site , he was doing something positive — already he 'd got a steel frame constructed for a building where the freight was formerly loaded — he was practical and a great motivator at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 10 | Although once he 'd had a wife of his own . |
| 11 | I loaded them on , and when she tried to push she found out she 'd got a trolley with a wonky wheel . |
| 12 | But so far they 'd drawn a blank in that direction . |
| 13 | I mean even today he 'd made a mistake on that thing and you spotted it where I would n't have done . |
| 14 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 15 | But at least I 'd had a chance by then to check out the bit of her which Catherine likes least . |
| 16 | As he poured the tea , Peter wondered if she 'd told James about how she 'd made a fool of him ; perhaps they had laughed at him together . |
| 17 | We were just talking , you know , how she 'd got a thing for me . |
| 18 | Maybe she 'd seen the looks of fear in her children 's eyes as she talked to them , maybe she 'd heard a rumour that somehow she was to blame . |
| 19 | Overnight she 'd caught a chill which showed every sign of developing into pneumonia . |
| 20 | There they 'd lit a fire and cooked the rice , but before starting to eat they 'd made an offering to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest , asking permission to plunder his lands . |
| 21 | This MacGregor he was to be a minister , and he was a well educated man but unfortunately he 'd made a mistake when he preached his sermon so he gave it up . |
| 22 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
| 23 | He knew then he 'd got a chance of winning . |
| 24 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 25 | Maybe he 'd joined a ship , he 'd done his national service in the navy . |
| 26 | Maybe he 'd taken a course in French film as a way of learning how to pick up girls . |
| 27 | I 've caught some , where I 'd caught a bus to you , if , remember when I was decorating the flat ? |
| 28 | He smiled , as if knowing why she 'd attempted a joke , and turned her around , leaning her into his body . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 30 | and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic |