Example sentences of "'d [verb] for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one .
2 He 'd trusted for the last time .
3 It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time .
4 A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up
5 He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand .
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