Example sentences of "'d [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd booked a good table at The Palace .
2 He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him .
3 As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job .
4 Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain .
5 And if you 'd got a good suit , you 'd take that , then fetch it out for the weekend , so they 'd looked decent , and when you took it back on Monday and he said I 'll have to drop you on that , Ah , so you wo n't this week .
6 He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ?
7 We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’
8 Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over .
9 I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’
10 I thought we 'd got a good team .
11 And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was .
12 Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’
13 I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path .
14 The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day .
15 Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him .
16 He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ?
17 that 's what I mean if they 'd had a good whistler he kept instead of her , could n't he ?
18 If I was a less trusting soul I 'd have said he 'd had a good lunch .
19 I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that
20 By now she 'd had a good look at him .
21 So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get .
22 Her father , Peter Few Brown said they 'd had a good visit .
23 If you 'd had a good horse , you asked for hol holiday with er , alright you 'd get it , you would n't do your horse , you know , they 'd take your horse off you .
24 I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself .
25 He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ?
26 I 'd had a good week .
27 And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh .
28 They 'd had a good time .
29 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
30 And I 'd have shot myself if we lost because I 'd wasted a good chance just before the goal . ’
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