Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd heard about the jail 's reputation for handling violent and dangerous offenders . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He thought he 'd heard of the Box . |
| 4 | He 'd heard of the place . |
| 5 | She 'd heard of an opening for a showroom model at one of the better fashion houses on the Via Monte-napoleone ; despite the agency 's insistence on scouting all jobs itself , she had gone around to the house and applied for the position herself , listing International Models as representing her . |
| 6 | I 'd heard on the grapevine it was nearly settled . ’ |
| 7 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
| 8 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 9 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 10 | He 'd got the idea from a song he 'd heard on the radio while he was driving . |
| 11 | Pascoe realized that what he 'd heard in the voice on the phone had n't been age , but sickness . |
| 12 | Wisps of rumour I 'd heard in the cafes started to fall together . |
| 13 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 14 | Kalchu was reflecting , wondering which of the shots we 'd heard from the house . |
| 15 | ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 18 | She 'd arranged with the school for me to see her results and report later when she phoned from the villa . |
| 19 | He 'd arranged with the parish priest to stay the night here . |
| 20 | 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 — ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’ |
| 22 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 23 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 24 | They 'd set his hand and cast it , and then after a second set of plates a week later they 'd broken off the cast and operated . |
| 25 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 26 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |
| 27 | Some months ago , a reader sent me a copy of the form she 'd received from the States , but I was then advised this was n't likely to be honoured in law . |
| 28 | He 'd supped with the devil and no spoon was long enough . |
| 29 | She 'd leaned against the door , shook her hair over her face , and lowered her eyelids . |
| 30 | If she 'd jumped into the water she 'd have made a splash . ’ |