Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 2 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I suppose I 'd expected expressions of grief , probably pages and pages of it . |
| 4 | She 'd saved Blazer from slaughter . |
| 5 | He had even held the receiver out in Folly 's direction , but she 'd blushed crimson with embarrassment and pushed it away . |
| 6 | She remembered now why she 'd hated sport at school . |
| 7 | One of them , recently relieved of a large Norwegian and still visibly tense , said she 'd lost interest in food and would settle for not having all the cup handles knocked off . |
| 8 | Twice before she 'd had proposals of marriage and had rejected them because she could n't feel for the men they came from . |
| 9 | She 'd had years of practice . |
| 10 | Only a short time before she 'd had Penry for company while she knitted . |
| 11 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 12 | Yes oh yes , she 'd got Lucy in bed , made love — had sex ? — fucked with ? — there was n't really a phrase to fit how utterly strange the whole thing had made her feel . |
| 13 | If she 'd expected signs of embarrassment or even an apology , it was obvious that she 'd miscalculated . |
| 14 | Leonora bristled as she marched into the other room , realising she 'd expected murmurs of appreciation to greet her offering . |
| 15 | And in the Bible it 's recorded that for example there are some cases where there was a big storm and they lost sight of land and all the sailors er promptly panicked because once they 'd lost sight of land they had n't got a clue where they were . |
| 16 | At the height of their affair they 'd made love from dusk to dawn on several occasions ; toying and teasing , stopping to bathe so they 'd have the bliss of working up a second sweat . |
| 17 | It was Hallowe'en coming up that gave her the idea they 'd had lessons at school about ghosts , witches and Hallowe'en . |
| 18 | He 'd heard loads of acceleration and loads of noise . |
| 19 | He 'd asked Amanda to lunch once , then again , and finally he had sounded her out , not minding the way she 'd sized him up , considering . |
| 20 | She did not like the way he 'd dismissed Nathan in order to talk to her . |
| 21 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 22 | He 'd pushed forkfuls of food into his mouth , chewing it mechanically , drinking water to make swallowing easier . |
| 23 | He 'd had Ribena with ice in it himself , and he could remember now , quite distinctly , thinking how horrible it must be for Kate , not to have a father , nor ever to have an occasion like this . |
| 24 | Paheri accused Surere of taking too soft a line ; but I also heard that he 'd found Surere in bed with a stable boy . |
| 25 | He had never been taken in , not really , not inside , but he 'd known moments of doubt , so his delight and relief were unbounded now he found that his instincts had been right all along ! |
| 26 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |