Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAVE to admit that up to now , I 'd heard more about The Cranberries than of them . |
| 2 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 3 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 4 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
| 5 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 6 | He 'd applauded politely at the end of every number , but seemed totally unmoved , and somehow that had made her try all the harder , as though it were imperative that she reach him . |
| 7 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 8 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 9 | They 'd moved away from the office district and she was now in an area of sandwich shops , electrical stores and ticket agencies where the traffic was heavier and the pavement crowds more dense . |
| 10 | ‘ The doctor will be here soon , and I 'm sure — ’ She turned as the door behind her opened , and the curly-haired doctor she 'd seen briefly in the dining-room came softly towards the bed . |
| 11 | A strong , dark , classical face , with a cleft chin and that peculiarly haunting quality she 'd seen only in the paintings of old masters . |
| 12 | She 'd seen enough from the taxi to tell that every house , cottage , shop and inn was simply full of character , each different but still in the traditional Cotswold style she was beginning to recognise . |
| 13 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 14 | Kate was n't particularly fanciful , but Dara reminded her of a black panther she 'd seen once in a zoo . |
| 15 | Twisting the key in the ignition , she wished , belatedly , that she 'd struggled more in the barn , been more scathing … |
| 16 | " No , " he 'd said flatly in a manner which meant he would not change his mind . |
| 17 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
| 18 | I did n't find out he was the artist who 'd done all of the paintings until the end of the conversation and that was basically what ended the conversation : I just ran off ! |
| 19 | She ran her tongue nervously over her lips , tasting the honey-coral lipgloss she 'd applied carefully in an effort to banish her image as the ingenuous young art student , fresh from college . |
| 20 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 21 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 22 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 23 | He lived in Notting Hill Gate , in a house he 'd bought cheaply in the late fifties , which he now seldom left , touched as he was by agoraphobia , or , as he preferred it , ‘ a perfectly rational fear of anyone I ca n't blackmail ’ . |
| 24 | They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully . |
| 25 | A sharp , cruel memory had slid into her mind : her father , calming her when she 'd cried hysterically at the death of her new kitten . |
| 26 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 27 | And who had told him that she 'd stayed late at the office ? |
| 28 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 29 | What she 'd known instinctively from the start was absolutely right . |
| 30 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |