Example sentences of "'d work [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | going around and I 'd worked right through it because of all the Christmas preparation |
| 2 | In their dealings in the office they 'd worked well together , achieved an excellent rapport regarding the PR for the business fair , but somehow he 'd been the model of teasing aloofness , apparently with more time for Stephanie Marsa than for Caroline . |
| 3 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 4 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 5 | We 'd worked together on a BBC play called Shiftwork and he had a slightly wry , sullen world-weariness about him which reminded me of so many downtrodden husbands . |
| 6 | I mean , I expect she knew how you felt about the only things worth having being the things you 'd worked hard for and earned for yourself , so you would n't want her to leave you the house ] But she did n't want you to think she 'd forgotten you , or that she was just being spiteful , or something … ’ |
| 7 | He 'd worked hard , smoothly , with humour and enjoyment , thought Julia with sudden distaste , so that five old men could get drunk with ceremony . |
| 8 | She 'd worked hard to achieve it . |
| 9 | , but he died soon after that but he 'd realised that he 'd worked hard all his life |
| 10 | And , despite being fairly scatty and not particularly intellectual , she 'd worked very hard to gain the necessary qualifications which would enable her to attend an art college in London . |
| 11 | Such a drug , he suggests , would be not unlike crack , and the poor shmucks who were n't UMC would love it , while those who 'd worked so hard for their privileges would despise the short-cut : you 're either UMC or you are n't , simulacra wo n't do . |
| 12 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 13 | You did n't disagree with Dad the other day , anyhow , when he remarked that since you 'd worked so hard for your qualifications it was a pity that there was n't a firm around here large enough for you to use them . |
| 14 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 15 | Janie 's mother , Angela Darling , clearly distraught , took time out to praise the police who 'd worked so hard on the investigation . |
| 16 | She 'd worked there , had n't she ? |
| 17 | He 'd worked there years and years . |
| 18 | Well jobs were were n't particularly hard to get in nineteen thirteen and er well in any case me father worked there and he 'd worked there many years so i it was the normal thing that you usually followed your father like . |
| 19 | And anot in a careers officer 's view the other day , that seeing as though they 'd worked there twenty years ago , they wanted to go back and see how it had changed . |
| 20 | I had worked there , and that was when I was sixty five , so I 'd worked there all my working life , apart from the , the war years and had served under quite a number of people really . |
| 21 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 22 | A hundred and thirty of the people who 'd worked there volunteered to staff the new factory in France . |
| 23 | ‘ If you 'd worked harder , you 'd have saved the yard . ’ |
| 24 | And she was mistaken if she thought she was getting her paws on this patch , I 'd worked bloody hard to make it mine and that 's how it was going to stay . |
| 25 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |