Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [pers pn] the [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 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 5 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 6 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 11 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 12 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
| 13 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
| 14 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 15 | But they 'd seen him the moment he saw them , so he kept on walking towards them . |
| 16 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 17 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 18 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 19 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 20 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 21 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 22 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 23 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
| 24 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
| 25 | Then she 'd shown him the book : a very rare volume indeed . |
| 26 | The day she 'd shown him the photograph … |
| 27 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 28 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 29 | ‘ Little things , ’ he 'd said when , just before he fell asleep , she 'd asked him the question once more . |
| 30 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |