Example sentences of "'d [adv] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't ever , ’ and Donald took another breath , through his mouth this time , as if he 'd only surfaced for a moment , ‘ do n't EVER eat my beans again . ’ |
| 3 | there were five red and gold crackers on the starched , white cloth and all the presents were ready in the old pillowcases they 'd all used for years at Christmas . |
| 4 | He 'd already asked for a copy of the calendars of the Carmelite , Nicholas of Lyn . |
| 5 | It was the unsettling effect he had on her , making her question everything she 'd always taken for granted . |
| 6 | He was doing it again , she thought with some amazement — putting her on the spot and forcing her to examine things she 'd always taken for granted . |
| 7 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 8 | Evans 's news was better than he 'd ever hoped for . |
| 9 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 10 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 11 | He smiled at her , but the concern she 'd once felt for him had wholly dissipated . |
| 12 | He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez . |
| 13 | The other two were good as well — they 'd both passed for Sergeant , stable , fine fellers . |
| 14 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 15 | He 'd probably asked for the best sherry available , she rightly guessed . |
| 16 | His last memory was of a rather half-hearted dawn chorus outside the grey windows , so he 'd probably slept for about two hours . |
| 17 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 18 | If they 'd really cared for him , Nigel reasoned , they 'd have stayed . |
| 19 | When we got to the airport at Stansted , she 'd even arranged for the Captain to escort me on to the plane . |
| 20 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 21 | She 'd never asked for nor expected pity . |
| 22 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 23 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 24 | But he 'd never known for certain and still did n't know now . |
| 25 | Then , during the afternoon he put in a personal appearance at three of the funeral parlours that he 'd recently acquired for the company as part of his new expansion programme . |