Example sentences of "[noun pl] 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was " a misrepresentation of the true Doctrine of Obedience taught in our Church ; which was oppos 'd to Faction and Sedition , not to a Legal Government : For Obedience is a Duty owing to setled Governments , administered by Legal Methods … but does not extend , nor was ever so intended , to the subversion of Laws , and our civil and religious Rights , at the Will of the Prince " . |
| 2 | when Ah were finally allowed ti goa back hoam — usually when she were feeling hungry — t'naybors 'd phoned police . |
| 3 | Too dearly purchas 'd with a thousand Pound . |
| 4 | Too dearly purchas 'd with a thousand Pound |
| 5 | Having thus fire and water at every dwelling , there is no need to enquire why they dwell thus dispers 'd upon the highest hills … |
| 6 | If only your parents 'd had the sense to let you to go in for it . ’ |
| 7 | A typical Whig piece accused the Tories of seeking to promote popery and arbitrary government : despite " a pretence of Zeal , for the Church of England by Law Established , and the Monarchy " , they " have shewn that their Church is that which was Established by Magna Carta before the Reformation , and their Monarchy , the French Tyranny , or King James his suppos 'd Divine Right " . |
| 8 | With lordly Rulers Women still are curs 'd ; |
| 9 | In 1713 , at the election for the City of London ( where the franchise was vested in the liverymen ) , " a great Mob of Weavers and such people " ( who were presumably not enfranchised ) turned up at the Guildhall in support of the Whigs , and " made a disturbance and caus 'd much fighting and quarrelling " , although the four Tory candidates eventually carried the day , " notwithstanding the Rabble " . |
| 10 | Some Tories " rais 'd an Opposite Mobb , who offering to disturb the Rejoycings round the Bonfire , a Scuffle ensu 'd , in which the Aggressors were repuls 'd with some broken Heads and bloody Noses " . |
| 11 | Expos 'd to all the pinching Rigour |
| 12 | Expos 'd in a True Picture of [ Jeremy Collier ] ( 1704 ) by Thomas Brown , or Hypocrisie Unmasked , the title of two works with American associations , one published in 1646 by Edward Winslow relating grievances by the Governor and Company of Massachusetts against Samuel Gordon of Rhode Island , the other published in 1776 with the subtitle or , A short inquiry into the religious complaints of our American colonies . |
| 13 | If th'guts 'd been griping and grinding like as if a corkscrew were twisting there , thee 'ud have done the same . |
| 14 | On a Sunday , they could go down to chapel , the old girls 'd to go down one side of the aisle , they 'd go down the other , the old men , tried to put his hand out , touch the old lady … |
| 15 | sookies gae 'd a snyrk |
| 16 | They had er , perhaps two men 'd on the , the trams and sons 'd follow them like you know . |
| 17 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 18 | I remember I saw , two or three Years before my Acquaintance with her commenced , a Book about the Size of a common Copy-Book ( but something thicker ) fill 'd with Poems of her writing , that much pleas 'd me . |
| 19 | Pleas 'd with itself and all the World beside , |
| 20 | Like the pleas 'd Infant o'er a painted Flow'r : |
| 21 | Leapor describes , for example , the height of a ceiling : ‘ Here the pleas 'd Spider plants her peaceful Loom : / Here weaves secure , nor dreads the hated Broom ’ [ ML , 2 , 113 ] . |
| 22 | See ! the pleas 'd Swans along the Surface play ; |