Example sentences of "'d [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prison does that to some men , though , he 'd heard it on a documentary . |
| 2 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 3 | She looked the same as usual ; untidy , a hole in her coat where she 'd caught it on a hook in the yard . |
| 4 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 5 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 6 | The first time he 'd done it with a boy , he 'd been ashamed . |
| 7 | suddenly it all ended when a SAC , who was n't even a suspect , admitted that he 'd done it during a fit of depression ; with a pair of pliers , not a knife ! |
| 8 | He 'd used it about a lot of his friends behind their backs , particularly if they were homosexuals or had other sexual tastes he considered unusual . |
| 9 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 10 | It was thoughtless of Miguel to take the vehicle — but maybe he 'd needed it in a hurry . |
| 11 | He 'd got it to an art — |
| 12 | And now she 'd got it with a vengeance . |
| 13 | You know , cos I 'd got it at a P P C as well , for national conference . |
| 14 | An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative . |
| 15 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 16 | She 'd styled it into a long , fat French plait . |
| 17 | You said you 'd spent it on a new banjo . ’ |
| 18 | You could n't have risked people finding out you 'd stolen it from a woman you 'd raped during the Russian campaign . |
| 19 | It sounded as though she 'd left it on a bus or something . |
| 20 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 21 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 22 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |