Example sentences of "'d just [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
2 | ‘ Anyone would think you 'd just received a death sentence . |
3 | They 'd just survived a crash and had over-reacted . |
4 | He 'd just attended a pottery class at the Guild Hall in Gloucester and as usual , went to get the bus home . |
5 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
6 | And he 'd just made a film and , we were watching something |
7 | if you 'd actually made a minus there , ignoring capital allowances , you 'd just made a loss of four hundred pounds , then that loss would be for a year of assessment , and in that year of assessment , it could be set against your salary or pensions for that year a as if it was a personal allowance . |
8 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
9 | He was a red-faced man with a pitted complexion who always looked exhausted , as if he 'd just completed a marathon . |
10 | We 'd just totalled a couple of teenage boys . |
11 | Ronni stood and watched the empty doorway for a moment , feeling a little as though she 'd just encountered a whirlwind . |
12 | It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it . |
13 | Initially she 'd just had a bit of a fever and a very dry throat . |
14 | She had a seriously ill patient to contend with and she 'd just had a telephone message to say that Brückner 's wife wanted to come up and visit him . |
15 | Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets . |
16 | Marc made her feel as if she 'd just had a battle with a steamroller — but she was mildly pleased with herself . |
17 | He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl . |
18 | And you 'd just had a plastic cold just the favourite because for our Martine and pull her along in it . |
19 | Which one was the real Luke Calder : the hard , tough businessman who would stop at nothing and spare no one to get what he wanted , or that tender stranger she 'd just had a glimpse of ? |
20 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
21 | He 'd just had a stroke |
22 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
23 | And she 'd just had an idea , one which would get them all moving . |
24 | I 'd just had an idea for a way of doing Lear and it had brought me luck . |
25 | Yet it 's a theory without logic : if you 'd just had an Austin Utterly Dependable break down and fall to bits , would you really want another one ? |
26 | and I 'd just peeled an orange to be honest |
27 | So I went and saw a building contractor , friend of me Dads and er he welcomed me with open arms , he 'd just got a contract for building council houses down Dunson Street at Netherfield . |
28 | She 'd just got a job at Simon Peter 's , a twenty-four-hour supermarket chain that catered for all funeral needs . |
29 | " It 's as if I 'd just taken a photograph . " |
30 | Leeds were quoted at 20–1 to win it , even though they 'd just shown an interview with Howard saying the squad we have now is better than the one we had when we won the thing . |