Example sentences of "she 'd [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 2 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 3 | She 'd lost a few stone since the last time he 'd seen her and put on about half a ton of make-up . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been savaged by love , ’ she would declaim , when she 'd had a few . |
| 5 | Used to cry her eyes out sometimes when she 'd had a few , and say she 'd be in purgatory for about a million years . |
| 6 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 7 | She did n't correct enough or she lost control or maybe she 'd had a few bevvies . |
| 8 | Frankly , she looked as if she 'd got a few bundles of twelve-page letters stuffed up her woolly even now . |
| 9 | She 'd left a few more pieces of trash on the dining-room floor : reminders of that time . |