Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't understand why he 'd given up a job he clearly loved to come back here . ’ |
| 2 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 3 | After they 'd cooled off a bit , you 'd have to go and water them . |
| 4 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 6 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 7 | It were my other sister 's daughter 's eighteenth and she 'd booked up a party at the club . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd rolled around a bit with Angela Brickell , ’ I said , ‘ and that 's where we come to the biggest Against . ’ |
| 9 | No a bit bigger seems to me if we 'd moved up a bit we would have had a bit more room . |
| 10 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
| 11 | It felt like they 'd missed out a stage or two . |
| 12 | Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’ |
| 13 | You 'd written out a cheque |
| 14 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 15 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 16 | When Chris Oakey decided to create a set of life size figures for his A Level Art project , his teachers feared he 'd bitten off a bit more than he could chew . |
| 17 | And er quarter to eight er quarter to nine in the morning , all the commuters are running around half asleep , wish they 'd got up a bit earlier but they did n't . |
| 18 | And er when you 'd got on a bit you delivered the baby but the midwife was there to see you did n't make any mistakes and , and really to t teach you to do it . |
| 19 | Erm , I think possibly again , if you 'd got down a bit lower this sort of little rise in the ground there , that er that 's a , it 's erm what do you call it ? |
| 20 | He realised that he 'd opened up a can of worms . |
| 21 | You could n't show up in a place like Adam 's Creek without a few questions being asked , Jed knew that , so he 'd dreamed up a story . |
| 22 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 23 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
| 24 | He stood smiling , licking his own with relish , and wiping the ends of his moustaches where the ice dung to them , and you and Lucia , befuddled from your interrupted sleep echoed his gurgles and grunts of pleasure at the taste ; he 'd brought back a tub , filled with a variety of ice creams : ‘ A macedonia ! ’ he 'd call out , a fruit salad of ices . |
| 25 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 26 | So he r he disappeared from view and the man 'd quietened down a bit . |
| 27 | Appropriately enough for a photo session with one of the fittest men in the world — capable of dancing for hours without a break — we 'd taken over a corner of top London gym , The Peak , at the Hyatt Carlton Tower Hotel . |
| 28 | He 'd ridden up a shaft , clinging to the outside of a vertical rail-car , overhanging an abyss . |
| 29 | Over the years , she 'd kept back a portion , every week , of the money Wakelate gave her to buy food at the market . |
| 30 | He 'd kept back a portion of corned beef for the purpose . |