Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 2 | Once we 'd decided to have a baby we had had to find a Father . |
| 3 | And you 'd got to take a knife , in one hand paper in the other paper in the other for business . . |
| 4 | It er you were taught , and er I ju I 'd say it was as liberal a education as you get now , but you 'd got to get your maths , you 'd got to English , you 'd got to get a language , you 'd got to get a science , and |
| 5 | It er you were taught , and er I ju I 'd say it was as liberal a education as you get now , but you 'd got to get your maths , you 'd got to English , you 'd got to get a language , you 'd got to get a science , and |
| 6 | As she said it , she managed to look back at him levelly , though she 'd had to suppress a dart of guilt before she spoke . |
| 7 | I also had a letter from about some request she 'd had to send a copy of the CAMET corpus to Sheffield . |
| 8 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 9 | Brückner 's investigators had found a jeweller who 'd refused to buy a cross that fitted the description of the Holy Relic . |
| 10 | A Sunday newspaper had once revealed that he 'd wanted to marry a feminist and she 'd run off with a lesbian , which was why he had it in for both . |
| 11 | We 'd hoped to have a beer afterwards , but Leo had disappeared probably back to his daughter and girl friend . |
| 12 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 13 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 14 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 15 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 16 | She 'd tried to make a joke out of it . |
| 17 | He 'd managed to walk a mile behind Botham and was very proud of himself . |
| 18 | He 'd managed to grab a couple of hours ' sleep in the cell since they 'd brought him in , but it was scarcely enough to refresh him . |