Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | She 'd given me a shot to kill the pain and it was making me drowsy . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | He 'd given her a string of cultured pearls as a wedding present . |
| 8 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 9 | I was beginning to think you 'd given it a miss . ’ |
| 10 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She ignored that and asked him whether he 'd booked her a seat with us on the flight south from Lima . |
| 13 | ‘ If only I 'd met you a year ago . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If you 'd made me a cup of coffee , ’ I say , ‘ I could have walked home . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Cos I 'd got her a tube of toothpaste . |
| 17 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 18 | She 'd promised me a recipe . ’ |
| 19 | By the time I 'd had her a fortnight , and she was about five weeks old , her trust in me was growing . |
| 20 | She did not care that he 'd called her a whore . |
| 21 | But he 'd left it a bit late for consideration for her welfare , she thought hazily . |
| 22 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 23 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 24 | ‘ But I 'd sent you a cheque to cover my share of the quarter . ’ |
| 25 | Fascinated , I finally waylaid Dr Allott in the street one day , just after he 'd paid us a visit , and I plucked up courage to ask him what these strange words meant . |