Example sentences of "we 'd [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When we 'd cleared the shop out and put the stuff in the fridge , I used to all , scrub all round all the ta you know , the shelves round the sides and clean the scale down and the bacon machine and I used to scrape the block with a proper scraper . |
2 | ‘ After Munich I thought we 'd saved the day . |
3 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
4 | This is our actual workload and this is what it would have happened if we 'd followed the M R C er protocols . |
5 | When we 'd checked the recording we 'd heard Sinatra singing ‘ My Way ’ . |
6 | Even before we 'd exchanged a word , I knew that she would let me do anything I wanted to her . |
7 | Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake . ’ |
8 | I knew we 'd made a mistake as soon as we 'd … we 'd … ’ |
9 | I was glad we 'd made an impression . |
10 | What else is there to do in Kimblesworth , we 'd asked the taxi driver on the way from Durham railway station ? |
11 | Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels . |
12 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
13 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
14 | We 'd joined a demo of people who wanted to put the wall back up and return to communism ! ’ |
15 | ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’ |
16 | At least twice a week we 'd heard the sermons broadcast from a nearby mosque and were both sure that the preacher was Sheikh Fadlallah , one of the main spiritual leaders of Hezbollah . |
17 | We talked a bit more , about when we 'd heard the news , and so forth . |
18 | We 'd heard the dogs ' barking spreading through the trees when they 'd first been unleashed . |
19 | ‘ We thought we 'd denied the wolves a good meal . |
20 | I was beginning to think that we 'd missed the boat , even though we knew in our heart of hearts that the Lord wanted us in some form of full-time capacity . |
21 | We 'd received a campaigns update from central office and had registered the big box pile up campaign with that campaign coordinator . |
22 | We 'd received a tip-off about a shipment of cocaine due in at Nice aboard a South American freighter , so when it was unloaded we were able to apprehend the gang without much of a struggle . |
23 | We had Stevenage Town Hall on the Friday , The Marquee on the Saturday morning and Saturday evening we had the Brummel Club in Bromley which was David 's home town at that time — we 'd received a hell of a lot of publicity for that one . |
24 | I , I forgotten that it was Justine , I , it just threw me a bit that erm , erm , Nick asked me to let you know that we were here and that we 'd received the chairs . |
25 | As we 'd guessed the Jihad had nicked the negotiator . |
26 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
27 | I go along with that one , and we 'd commandeered the scullery back of the kitchen to pollute our bodies with addictive anti-stress-related poison . |
28 | If we 'd blown the network because of the hostages we would have left ourselves blind in the middle of a minefield . |
29 | Monika said : ‘ We developed a deep friendship and one night after we 'd drunk a lot of rum at my house , he tried to kiss me . |
30 | Now er when we 'd done a waggon er it was n't just er right , that 's alright , er we had a railway examiner come along and er he 'd go round it and if there was anything as he was was n't satisfied with , or any other further repairs , he he 'd stop that waggon from going out , and er of course we had to go r go back and do it . |