Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] 'd [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 2 | She said — and I do n't know if she was just bullshitting me , ’ and here Blufton opened his palms in a gesture of frankness , ‘ that she 'd found out the dates when a couple of lorries were due at Dover . |
| 3 | ‘ But why , once you 'd found out the truth about Ryan and me , did n't you drop your custody claim immediately ? |
| 4 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 5 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 6 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 7 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 8 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 9 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 10 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 11 | So if it was , you would n't know that of course if you 'd picked up the phone , would you ? |
| 12 | If you 'd worked out the correlation coefficient or some measure of correlation , you would expe you 'd say that they 're positively correlated . |
| 13 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 14 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |
| 15 | Leonora , expecting to be taken by storm after she 'd flung down the gauntlet , found Penry in no hurry at all . |
| 16 | But this was said after he 'd hung up the phone . |
| 17 | The day after he 'd nailed up the door of the lavatory in the yard she used the indoor one straight after him . |
| 18 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 19 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 20 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 21 | It was all too much , waiting for that upstart Hitler to make up his mind ; to envisage the Germans strutting down the Mall as they 'd strutted down the Champs Élysées . |
| 22 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 23 | As soon as he 'd hung up the phone , he gathered up the toys and slung them , Hamleys bag and all , under the bed . |
| 24 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |