Example sentences of "[noun sg] 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From one poor Mouth that 's stretch 'd too wide ; |
| 2 | But his superiority is short-lived , for the next line shows a recoil against the self : In the penultimate line Shakespeare achieves a fine double effect , the spelling ‘ eye ’ linking up with the ‘ eyes ’ ( his eyes , be it noted ) in the preceding lines , while the heard sense , ‘ more perjur 'd I ’ looks back to ‘ I am perjur 'd most ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're a family and thoo 'd best not forget it . |
| 4 | In a tract written shortly before the 1715 General Election , Atterbury maintained that " the People " had been " fleec 'd so often " by the heavy taxes imposed by the Whigs to fight their wars , that " they have scarce enough to keep them from Perishing " . |
| 5 | Evelyn 's material came from Rose , for ‘ He reason 'd so pertinently upon the Subject ( as indeed he does upon all things which concern his hortulan Profession ) ’ , as the preface says . |
| 6 | Davenant himself called The Siege ‘ a Representation by the art of Prospective in Scenes , And the Story sung in Recitative Musick ’ , a variety he describes as ‘ unpractis 'd here ; though of great reputation amongst other Nations ’ . |
| 7 | E'en the old oak that crown 'd yon rifled dell , |