Example sentences of "'d [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was probably something he 'd heard an old actor say , ’ he said . |
| 2 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
| 3 | The national spotlight was on us — and it appeared to most of us that we 'd missed an open goal . |
| 4 | She 'd made an absolute fool of herself . |
| 5 | He 'd made an unusual mistake in not locking the larder . |
| 6 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
| 7 | By the time we got to Romford , she 'd said an awful lot but I was n't any wiser . |
| 8 | She 'd noticed an attractive country hotel on her way through Issigeac , and thought she might as well return there . |
| 9 | He 'd used an Armalite semi-auto on the creatures as they stampeded from crag to crag . |
| 10 | you you talk er you know , when you were saying that you 'd erm you 'd sold an endless succession of of things , wh wh when you bought things , er you know when when you were married , it was there always that element in it that it was here for a just |
| 11 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 12 | What she could have done without when she went into her office was to answer the phone and hear Jimmy Webb ring in to ask if she could do without him as he 'd got an upset stomach . |
| 13 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 14 | and she said , she 'd got an electric cooker , can I finish cooking me tea on your cooker , huh , said it went off earlier than we thought I mean it was n't |
| 15 | He 'd had an addled idea that he wanted to stand there all night , so that first thing in the morning he could approach the kids and explain to them what it was he was after . |
| 16 | Looking tired and drawn as she paid a visit to the homes in Wirral and Warrington , she was quick to point out to photographers that she 'd had an early start . |
| 17 | ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus . |
| 18 | Hope fed her nosiness and kept her plodding beside Midnight , who 'd had an awkward job swinging the box on to his shoulder . |
| 19 | He 'd had an intense affair at Oxford which had drifted through almost a dozen years of indeterminate life and ended in a brutal rejection . |
| 20 | He 'd had an irrational feeling that something must have happened in his absence , simply because he had n't been there , but he was wrong . |
| 21 | Some of them were in a terrible state because they 'd had an electric shock from the lightning . |
| 22 | Turning to Charles Kettering , who 'd invented an electric motor small enough to power a National Cash Register , Leland asked if something similar could be adapted to the internal combustion engine . |
| 23 | Mrs Dass exclaimed softly from her sun-chair in the bow window , and her husband confessed that he 'd found an old set of blackout curtains that were just about right for size . |
| 24 | That morning he 'd revived an old custom . |
| 25 | Already he 'd learned an unbelievable amount , she said . |
| 26 | Or maybe he 'd spotted an old piece of long-forgotten shrapnel . |
| 27 | Edgar wicket keeper , innkeeper and redoubtable raconteur confided some time after midnight that to help run in his pain-free new hip joint he 'd taken an early morning paper round in Aycliffe village . |
| 28 | After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese . |
| 29 | ‘ I know it 's ridiculous , but it felt as if I 'd taken an enormous jump into the dark , that night with you … ’ |
| 30 | She 'd lost an awful lot of weight this last year , and these recurring dizzy spells were probably her body 's telling her to buck up , but they were slightly worrying all the same . |