Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 2 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 3 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 4 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 5 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |