Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd heard of a buyer with a hunger that was not being satisfied through conventional markets , and Klein had allowed it to be known that he might be able to lay his hands on something attractive . |
| 2 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 3 | He 'd faced foxes , he 'd helped to drive the Truck , he 'd flown on a goose — but none of them was half so bad as letting a human being actually touch him . |
| 4 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 5 | She had n't taken his horse and left him when he 'd fallen into a stupor last night . |
| 6 | The viewers would just assume he 'd fallen into a cupboard and bang would go the impact of the scene . |
| 7 | " There , " he said at last , when he 'd travelled in a half-circle . |
| 8 | A car driven by Shaun Gooch crashed into a group of young people , who 'd gathered by a bench on the side of Akers Way in Swindon . |
| 9 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 10 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 11 | A Christmas stocking — no , a pair of red tights , actually — filled up to here with pound notes that we 'd won on a strawberry roan named Cordelia . |
| 12 | Removing a pair of surgical gloves , he dropped them inside the open bag he 'd perched on a chair , closed the bag . |
| 13 | He did n't want to talk about it , and muttered that he 'd resigned over a matter of principle concerning next year 's timetable . |
| 14 | Looking around , he saw that he 'd parked outside a graveyard . |
| 15 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 16 | He visited them in Egypt , accompanied by a girl he 'd met in a bar , who proved to be a lesbian . |
| 17 | Not so long since I was in here myself , but I never dreamed Willis had not quite known what to bring , so he 'd decided on a packet of Whiffs . |
| 18 | It was as if he 'd moved through a layer of reality and into something older , a prewar world of poor light and brown paint and damp walls . |
| 19 | Even his walk was changed : normally he 'd moved like a man with springs in his feet . |
| 20 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 21 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 22 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd struggled through a freelance career using a wonderful old black upright Imperial typewriter , the kind hammered manically by Jack ( ‘ Cigarette me ! ’ ) |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't mind that I 'm an atheist ? ’ he 'd said with a frankness that at the time she 'd admired . |
| 25 | Maggie found herself staring directly into the eyes of the young man she 'd noticed at a setting loom on her first day . |
| 26 | Well that 's what he said oh no when he went to sleep I did I 'd done about a page this is what I read out , I went Professor Plop and the Time Machine . |
| 27 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |
| 28 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
| 29 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
| 30 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |