Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] together " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the first place they 'd owned together , after years of managing hotels for other people . ’ |
| 2 | The home they 'd made together , and enjoyed for a year and two months , was stripped bare . |
| 3 | What they 'd done together . |
| 4 | ‘ At least he did n't ask us if we 'd slept together . ’ |
| 5 | Her daughter 's attack made her break down and weep , and after they 'd cried together they talked about the misunderstandings . |
| 6 | The last meal they 'd had together was perhaps on holiday , or was it Eleanor 's cake ? |
| 7 | She talked to friends , not only about the happy times they 'd had together but the inevitable disappointments . |
| 8 | She hated herself for remembering , not just that last ugly confrontation in the campagna but the things that had preceded it , the good things , starting with the fun they 'd had together and ending with that long , sweet night she 'd spent in his arms . |
| 9 | He had n't loved Vanessa , but he had enjoyed the fourteen months they 'd spent together here . |
| 10 | He had changed so much in the time they 'd spent together . |
| 11 | He gave a grin , reminding her of the two short , intensely happy days they 'd spent together . |
| 12 | OK , there might n't perhaps be all that much left over now from the early joys of their marriage ; yet , in an odd sort of way , the longer they 'd abjured the divorce-courts , the stronger had grown the ties that bound them together : home , children , friends , memoria , insurance policies ; and above all , perhaps , the sheer length — the ever-increasing length — of the time they 'd spent together as man and wife . |
| 13 | Every narrow , cobble-stoned street , every white-pillared ruin , every little ristorante , reminded her of Nicolo and the time they 'd spent together . |
| 14 | But when you said what you did about the night we 'd spent together … ’ |
| 15 | Ronni kept her gaze fixed seawards as her stomach leapt inside her , remembering that dance they 'd shared together . |
| 16 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 17 | It was n't a nice ten minutes , all the consoling thoughts I 'd scraped together during the night ran away and I was left alone . |
| 18 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 19 | We 'd worked together on a BBC play called Shiftwork and he had a slightly wry , sullen world-weariness about him which reminded me of so many downtrodden husbands . |
| 20 | He especially liked to be taken to the home of a couple , to sleep securely between them if they 'd let him , and then in the morning to ask them questions about their house , about the furniture which they 'd chosen together . |
| 21 | Which drew all the strands of all that they 'd learnt together . |