Example sentences of "all [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] 'd [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 2 | But perhaps they simply had n't been able to check out all the prints they 'd found anyway . |
| 3 | Suddenly he thumped the arm of his chair with his fist , remembering all the times he 'd caught Stella on the stairs in the middle of the night , staring at the telephone . |
| 4 | Agnes duly went into labour about lunch-time one hot still day , pouring sweat and Omming to herself while my father boiled lots of water and things and Mrs Clamp dabbed Agnes 's brow and like as not told her of all the women she 'd known who had died in childbirth . |
| 5 | Which was crazy , she reflected as she sat there , after all the things they 'd done to each other with their bodies , and the things yet to be done . |
| 6 | But if she did not love him , if she was contemptuous of all the things they 'd had … that was unbearable . |
| 7 | He started saying all the things I 'd said about myself . |
| 8 | No , I 'd better not be told , because I should only begin counting up all the things I 'd missed , and you 're better off not knowing what you 've missed . ’ |
| 9 | Of all the things I 'd got up to in my time , I never thought I 'd be stitched for trying to return someone 's stolen property . |
| 10 | She looked at your nursery , and all the things you 'd got , and said you could stay until they 'd found suitable adoptive parents . |
| 11 | His wanting the wedding-dress was an excuse for saying all the things he 'd said . |
| 12 | I unpacked all the things he 'd bought . |
| 13 | Yeah I put all the nurseries , all the placements I 'd done at college an at and the employment . |
| 14 | ‘ When I wanted to produce a special jumper to commemorate my 50th Test try , with the emblems of all the countries I 'd scored against , I was told I 'd have to pay royalties for using them . |
| 15 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |
| 16 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 17 | Rather than the last meeting , it was just a couple of days after the last meeting , so rather than wait until now , I circulated all the papers I 'd got . |
| 18 | And there were all the other women he 'd made lucky too — all the hairdressers he 'd flirted with , all the travel agents , florists and girls in bars . |
| 19 | Sheffield , like Rome , is built on seven hills and I had to cross most of them , anger fuelling my journey as I thought of all the excuses I 'd swallowed . |
| 20 | Even now , when the place was virtually empty , it seemed to hold echoes and shadows of all the people who 'd been here , and all the characters they 'd played . |
| 21 | All the goals I 'd met so far — O-levels , A-levels , university — had been pre-planned for me . |
| 22 | The rent on this new place , like the rent on all the places he 'd lived in since he arrived in the city , was paid for by the Social Security . |
| 23 | He took me round all the places he 'd slept in . |
| 24 | Since then , those had been all the places she 'd known . |
| 25 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 26 | I was a trifle nervous when I remembered all the films I 'd seen about weddings . |
| 27 | After all the ditches I 'd waded through I was n't going to be defeated now — and only a few yards ahead was the blessed sea . |