Example sentences of "who 'd [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chap who 'd called out was the one in the pub who 'd told Mary Mauchline to go and rattle her can , the same Mary Mauchline he now held in his arms . |
| 2 | But no , The Day Leeds Won The Title they were n't there , apart from one fat bloke called Jimmy who 'd gone out hoping for a quiet drink … |
| 3 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 4 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not every day that someone wanders on to my property and , when charged at by a Dobermann who 'd shot off as I closed the door after us , goes blithely forward and greets it with the words , ‘ Hello , darling ’ , ’ he replied , reminding her , had she forgotten , that , the dog never far from his control outside of the house , he had soon been on the spot to witness events . |
| 6 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 7 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |
| 8 | ‘ No wonder the men who 'd served out their time put their savings into market stalls and little businesses , tanneries , dye-works , gardens . |
| 9 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 10 | Just what did he think she was — a spoilt little rich kid who 'd grown up being waited on hand and foot ? |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , how was I to know you were n't a sex-mad pervert who 'd broken in and hideously raped you before coming after me ? ’ |
| 12 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 13 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 14 | Women passengers who 'd nodded off in full make-up emerged with faces crumpled and ankles swollen . |
| 15 | She had no sympathy for the rich , spoiled girl who 'd walked out of her room and disappeared . |
| 16 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 17 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 18 | If he was normally quite a kind person who 'd taken up robbing banks because he was short of cash they could put jam on his bread and vodka in his water , and if he was a horror they could empty the potato peelings over him whenever they felt like it . ’ |
| 19 | There was Gazza Martin , the man who 'd slashed out his verdict , ‘ The tone and attitude of your piece stinks ’ in response to my idealistic scribblings . |
| 20 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 21 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 22 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the argument between the vegetarians and the farmers over who 'd chickened out of the original challenge goes on . |
| 24 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |