Example sentences of "'d [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd gazed at her plate , then at him . |
| 2 | He 'd told Dotty she would n't always feel so unhappy , that one day she 'd look at him and his face would seem quite ordinary , and she 'd flown at him , pummelling his chest with her fists , sobbing that the day would never come . |
| 3 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 4 | It was a late start because of the poor education he 'd received at the local Protestant school . |
| 5 | All that it would take would be a couple more calls like the one that he 'd received at home , at three o'clock that same morning , from the night manager of a certain parkside hotel . |
| 6 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 7 | There was about an inch of water covering the floor that she was certain had n't been there when they 'd stopped at the cupboard . |
| 8 | Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times . |
| 9 | He was rearranging his hair in the rear-view mirror as the monster moved out into the traffic , scattering small boys who 'd gathered at the front of the car to try and open the bonnet , for God 's sake , and examine the engine . |
| 10 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 11 | The priests who 'd officiated at Por Tanssie had been as neat as soldiers . |
| 12 | She 'd looked at me a bit strange , the woman in charge of the Bed-and-Breakfast , but I 'd paid on the nail and ordered in my refined accent , ‘ And a cooked breakfast , please ’ — so no hassle . |
| 13 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 14 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 15 | He could n't help thinking of something that she 'd said in all seriousness when they 'd left the apartment building behind and a lack of any interest from a passing night patrol on the motorway had told him that no , the police did n't seem to be keeping an active watch for his car ; she 'd looked at him and she 'd said , Promise me , Peter . |
| 16 | It was a long time since he 'd looked at them . |
| 17 | He 'd looked at the sheet of newspaper with the long-necked figures and the rough lines , and had seen the type underneath and its story about a car bomb in the city centre . |
| 18 | And he 'd looked at her as though he 'd never seen her before in his life . |
| 19 | The thought of him — the way he 'd looked at her , and spoken — made her start to shake again , but this time with temper . |
| 20 | I think Stan if he 'd looked at that situation again would probably have wanted to go at the first defender an and gone and gone up the left side . |
| 21 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 22 | Er and erm we did for that er report er as indeed in fact we had earlier in any event , we 'd looked at them separately , we have n't simply put in an orbital route , we had assessed in the traffic model er as separate schemes . |
| 23 | Er is I 'd looked at the using their machine build which I 've built in , |
| 24 | She was surprised she had n't noticed the coincidence when she 'd looked at Donna 's file . |
| 25 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 26 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
| 27 | It was n't just the way he 'd looked at her ; it was more complex than that . |
| 28 | Things were n't turning out as she 'd expected at all ; now she was dazed , confused , hardly knew where she was or what she was saying . |
| 29 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 30 | The opposition press also said he 'd pupped at least five children . |