Example sentences of "'d [verb] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 2 | She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime . |
| 3 | It had tried to snow over Christmas , but in London on the evening of the 27th , it was raining when Jack Carter turned into a small mews near Portman Square not far from SOE Headquarters ; which was why he had chosen it when he 'd received a phone call from Vargas . |
| 4 | ‘ I was wondering whether he 'd received a phone call , ’ explained Owen . |
| 5 | And while I , I was there last year , erm , there was er , a case that came to court , about a man who 'd installed a ceiling fan in his kitchen . |
| 6 | It was n't until they were er sort of six or seven years old that er you 'd , you 'd took a part time job . |
| 7 | How would St Jerome shape up after he 'd caught a Dinky toy in the mouth and had a few handfuls of fettucine thrust into his armpit ? |
| 8 | The icebox was packed with beer and he 'd prepared a lobster salad that he 'd left on ice . |
| 9 | Also , before I did that I 'd made a hoax call saying that Boots ’ chemist was on fire . |
| 10 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
| 11 | His extra two years had come about because he 'd shot a security guard in the leg with a twelve-bore . |
| 12 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 13 | She 'd noticed a vacuum flask by his side when she entered , and had wondered what devil 's brew was in it . |
| 14 | He could n't speak against that policy once he 'd accepted a government post . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd built a cat flap in the flat door so he could get into the rest of the house and one more in the back door so that he could get out into the square yard of concrete which our landlord Nassim called our patio . |
| 16 | You know , because we 'd got a piano , he 'd got a drum set for Christmas . |
| 17 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 18 | One was a young man from the shop-floor who 'd got a metal splinter in his eye and the other was a secretary who had caught her heel in one of the open staircases and twisted her ankle . |
| 19 | She were , she 'd got a scooter bit similar to mine and she er were coming home and it were one of women from school actually one of women from school . |
| 20 | It does n't matter if she 'd got a fire guard or not , but it still could easily get onto the |
| 21 | instead of saying , telling the er insurance people that they 'd give them the bills and they could pay them as they came in , he said they 'd got a lump sum . |
| 22 | Er yes I , I er I think I , I could n't really speak definitely on this but er you I have said that we , you know that this secretary encouraged them because you know , to keep it in and even the one woman said this was how she got a deposit for her house and through , as I say , you 'd got a Co-op building society as well . |
| 23 | Well , we 'd got a library picture of him , so we put it in . ’ |
| 24 | I meant to ask her if she 'd got a Vax machine because |
| 25 | ‘ I could see something was there ; Bernard had the persistence to obtain the site , he was doing something positive — already he 'd got a steel frame constructed for a building where the freight was formerly loaded — he was practical and a great motivator at the same time . ’ |
| 26 | I was going to ask you if they 'd got a youth team ? |
| 27 | When you 'd got a little bit more money . |
| 28 | She 'd bought a lawn edger sharp as a razor , sharp enough to cut your throat with . |
| 29 | Even before I met him I 'd admired a North Shore picture of his which showed the Kam Highway as it meandered out of the hills and down into Haleiwa , flanked by pineapple plantations and clumps of trees , and in the distance the Pacific , rippling with big waves . |
| 30 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |