Example sentences of "she 'd [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 'd done Russian studies and management or something |
| 2 | She 'd drunk chilled champagne , eaten delectable local cheese , crusty bread , fresh prawns and quiche closely resembling quiche Lorraine , followed by honey and sesame cakes , and small , juicy Maltese strawberries . |
| 3 | She 'd met arrogant men before , but never one quite like him . |
| 4 | And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas . |
| 5 | She 'd heard sickening tales of barbarous Gestapo torture , and of prisoners who were never seen again . |
| 6 | From the glimpses he 'd caught he believed she 'd had slight curves — he would n't have fancied her otherwise . |
| 7 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 8 | No doubt she 'd had ample proof of it . |
| 9 | She 'd had severe hearing impairment since birth and had become profoundly deaf in her mid-twenties , at a time when welfare services were mainly restricted to those provided by charities and phrases like ‘ deaf and dumb ’ were still common public currency . |
| 10 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 11 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 12 | He noted that she 'd had numerous stomach pumps as a result of such accidents in the past , and someone should have cared . |
| 13 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
| 14 | Her motives unclear , even to herself , she 'd taken enormous trouble with her face after her bath , disguising the bruise with a cover-up stick , accenting her eyes with a hint of shadow . |
| 15 | She 'd found Psychological Correspondences among her brother-in-law 's books . |
| 16 | I could hardly credit it when Carole said we were on a cushy number ; she 'd spent whole days hacking down rhododendrons and that was really back-breaking work . |
| 17 | So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing ! |
| 18 | She 'd got certain areas that she 'd got . |
| 19 | She 'd got built-in babysitting facilities . |
| 20 | And she 'd got modern ideas , and all — about married women being slaves , and what not — though to my way of thinking it 's always a toss-up which is the slave . |
| 21 | Well she co and cor , do you know she 'd got beautiful nails ! |