Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 2 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |
| 3 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 4 | I 'd got two pals that tried to get rid , they did get rid eventually , yeah . |
| 5 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd earned two shadows , bullnecks |
| 8 | I mean really I er it shook me because I was extremely naive , I 'd had two children but I was very very naive in those days . |
| 9 | Erm , then I think it probably had us confused for a while , whilst we were just trying to decide who should do writing and who should do what , but then I decided I 'd chose two people , and then we started cutting things out so then that , that went okay then . |
| 10 | And there was a memo to John from yourself , tenth of Jan , that my manager has passed to me , it said you 'd given two options that you could go in on Saturday and erm |
| 11 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 12 | In fact , I was told you 'd got two nights ! |
| 13 | She 'd tolerated two sessions already , and even got a bit of a kick out of them . |
| 14 | She 'd seen two men fighting in the street and seen them run past her . |
| 15 | She 'd lost two babies before they had me . |
| 16 | She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’ |
| 17 | She 'd had two helpings . |
| 18 | she loved children and I think she would of had more because she 'd had two miscarriages and she 's |
| 19 | Either that or she 'd got two woollies on . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd say we 'd gone two miles , ’ Stephen said . |
| 21 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 22 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 23 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 24 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 25 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 26 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | ' … so that the end of the week he found he 'd lost two stone . |
| 28 | He 'd strangled two children with his bare hands , then called the police to give himself up . |
| 29 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 30 | He 'd spotted two men driving away from a securicor van parked outside Bookers cash and carry centre in cheltenham . |