Example sentences of "'d [verb] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise . |
| 2 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 3 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 4 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 5 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 6 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 7 | She felt she 'd lived a zillion eternities , crossed endless lifeless galaxies , bearing her solitude , waiting for US , waiting for the fulfilment of all that lay between them . |