Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
| 2 | They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip . |
| 3 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 4 | I thought someone 'd given me a TV set — I was so excited , I ripped the box open and this girl went , ‘ Can I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 5 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 6 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 7 | ‘ I rang him — he 'd given me a list of all the Grands Prix contact numbers — but when he came to my hotel the next morning it was of his own accord . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd given me a shot to kill the pain and it was making me drowsy . |
| 9 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 10 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 11 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 12 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 13 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 14 | He 'd given her a string of cultured pearls as a wedding present . |
| 15 | She was already dutiful and anxious to please him , and she looked so pretty in a dress of sprigged cotton he 'd given her the money to buy for the wedding . |
| 16 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 17 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 18 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 19 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
| 20 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
| 21 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 22 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 23 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 24 | I was beginning to think you 'd given it a miss . ’ |
| 25 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 26 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 27 | She ignored that and asked him whether he 'd booked her a seat with us on the flight south from Lima . |
| 28 | ‘ If only I 'd met you a year ago . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If you 'd made me a cup of coffee , ’ I say , ‘ I could have walked home . ’ |
| 30 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |