Example sentences of "[that] [pron] 'd [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends .
2 ‘ I used to think , sometimes , that I 'd built a house for strangers to live in .
3 Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me .
4 I was proving to the convenor that I 'd made a mark opposite that deliverance on which to call you .
5 So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it .
6 I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job .
7 So he came to the conclusion that I 'd torn a muscle .
8 ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’
9 ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered .
10 After a while , though , I began to feel sure that I 'd spotted a Gharrgoyle — or maybe a different one at different times — wriggling through the crowds behind me .
11 There 's a poster up in erm , and these two people that are drug addicts , and said like , did you see that I 'd drawn a pair of ears on one of them , turned around and seen Shane and he 's like his mate was the other one , were n't it ?
12 I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction .
13 When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . "
14 ‘ I 'm sure you do , but Kitty must n't ever know that I 'd had a hand in it . ’
15 She could n't remember the last time that she 'd invited a man into her home , and now it made her feel uneasy to watch Luke Calder inspecting all these snippets of her life .
16 But when I drove to London to collect her as we 'd arranged , I found that she 'd had a phone call less than an hour previously to say that Barney was ill .
17 Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said
18 Did you feel that you 'd completed a phase ?
19 Did you feel that you 'd completed a phase ?
20 ‘ You would forget the ten thousand , and I would n't tell the law that you 'd left a stiff behind the Windsor . ’
21 and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it .
22 Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms
23 We discovered that we 'd got a lot of unnecessary parts — things that were over-indulgent — so we chucked 'em out . ’
24 I was afraid it might come out that we 'd got a cut as well .
25 Perhaps they meant it , but he died of a fever his first winter here and it must have seemed to him that they 'd broken a promise .
26 I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five .
27 Not all the transactions were strictly honest , though , and sometimes customers got home to discover that they 'd bought a cat or a puppy , thus that expression and an expression bonus : ‘ letting the cat out of the bag ’ .
28 then it says to the , the apostles that they 'd approached a Mount Zion and a city of a living God , heavenly
29 Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’
30 I think that he 'd reached a stage in his life where he was to become less community minded and more geared toward the fulfilment of his own career . ’
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