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 | 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 . |
| 24 | She 'd just got a job at Simon Peter 's , a twenty-four-hour supermarket chain that catered for all funeral needs . |
| 25 | " It 's as if I 'd just taken a photograph . " |
| 26 | Unless he 'd just bought a bed . |
| 27 | Finally , Mrs M. R. Ault of Gravesend , Kent , wrote to say she 'd just bought a ribber and how could she knit a V-neck band using the ribber . |
| 28 | Trading standards officers were first alerted to the danger by someone who 'd just bought a mixer . |
| 29 | His tone was perfectly reasonable , affable even , so why did she feel as though he 'd just issued a command ? |
| 30 | I 'd just approached a woman ( who , it emerged , could speak only Mandarin ) , to ask her about the joys of cycling . |