Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 'd fucking had his dinner at six o'clock , I do n't even know what I rang the club later , I tell you like , twenty past he 'd arrived at the club and he was early , where 'd you go ? |
| 32 | He had in his hurry left one drawer just a little open , and was now delving into the carpet-bag , which he 'd found at the bottom of the shelved larder . |
| 33 | He had stuck to his story , that they 'd quarrelled at the dance and he had left early . |
| 34 | Paddy Byrne meant nothing to him , yet he 'd appeared at the graveside this morning . |
| 35 | He 'd poked at the soil with a hoe to give it a fresh look . |
| 36 | Anyway she 'd knocked at the door and er , I said to her oh I do n't have to buy anything and she said no , no and erm |
| 37 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 38 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
| 39 | Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London . |
| 40 | But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long . |
| 41 | ‘ They came in their full march into the town with about 60 or 70 coloureds borne before them which they 'd taken at the Battle of Edgehill from the Parliament 's forces . |
| 42 | The palm wine he 'd drunk at the evening banquet must have driven all sense from him … his first taste . |