Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 2 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 3 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |
| 4 | He had spent a while in the toilet , most of the time with his ear to the stethoscope-like instrument he 'd pressed against the closed door . |
| 5 | It was a late start because of the poor education he 'd received at the local Protestant school . |
| 6 | I smiled , nodding my head , not unhappy that he 'd jumped to the wrong conclusions , but surprised that he did n't know the secret of paying by instalments . |
| 7 | Just for a few seconds she 'd fallen for the powerful aphrodisiac of music , her senses sharpened by aquavit and the potent charisma of a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his desired ends ! |
| 8 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 9 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 10 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 11 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 12 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 13 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 14 | that , that spoilt the course or were not relevant and they 'd forgotten about the relevant bits . |
| 15 | How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ? |
| 16 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 17 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 18 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 19 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 20 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 21 | When they said goodbye they 'd embraced by the front door , a taxi waiting on the road outside . |
| 22 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 23 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 24 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 25 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 26 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 27 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 28 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 29 | Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels . |
| 30 | ‘ Has Mr MacKay left yet ? ’ she 'd enquired of the startled receptionist . |