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Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [pron] 'd [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	For a while they just stood there , staring down at the boar , satisfying their curiosity after the brief and distant glimpses that they 'd had on the hunt .
2	When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel .
3	Carson pulled out his pad and tried to read the shaky notes that he 'd made on the Underground .
4	Er at this point Douglas said er he thought it 'd be a jolly good idea if they dropped a few of these new bombs that they 'd discovered at Hiroshima and Nagasaki er on these slit eyed people and that would really show them who was in control of the world er now this , as you might expect , caused something of a problem to President Truman .
5	It was , therefore , with exaggerated haste that he undid his black tie , pulled the white shirt over his head , substituted a red T-shirt and a pair of old Norfolk drab cords that he 'd salvaged from his father 's wardrobe .
6	He took out the keys that he 'd brought from the office back home , and opened the door .
7	At dawn they ate the potatoes that they 'd laid around the fire to cook .
8	‘ But we 've found tapes that we 'd forgotten about , from the Warners vaults in LA and from CBS in New York .
9	She 'd go shopping , now that she had some money , or go to see places that she 'd heard of .
10	The Tibetan was talking in loud self-congratulatory tones about the religious statues and paintings that he 'd smuggled across the border and sold in India ; how time and again he 'd outwitted the border police , with silver , musk and contraband of every sort .
11	But we tried things that we 'd done in theory .
12	All the things that you 'd had during the Strike , but things did get left , and er tradesmen were very considerate , there was no chasing for m hard for money and er I know we had an insurance that was n't paid and we used the book to have an imaginary shilling on a horse each day .
13	Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right .
14	Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right .
15	She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time .
16	Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress .
17	There 's a photograph of him standing in front of the cabbages that he 'd grown for victory wearing his Home Guard uniform .
18	Two of these featured stars that she 'd heard of , the others had an inescapable bit-playerish look about them .
19	Once again each man visited with his own buddies that they 'd gone through training with here in the States , so we feel very much attached to the Hundredth Bomb Group and .
20	Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers .
21	He also had another er , what we call a journey waybill and that , he used to record on there at each termini he used to record the time and the ticket numbers that he 'd got in his rack at that particular time , so it could be seen between certain times that a ticket perhaps was sold between Witton and Rushmere Heath .
22	I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about .
23	Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's .
24	She usually found those , though , just as she usually found any cash or letters that he 'd hidden from her .
25	The weeds that we 'd uprooted in the morning were shrivelled and brown ; the earth looked as if nothing had ever lived in it .
26	Out of all the women that she 'd processed for Charlie , the hard cases and the desperate and the downright kinky , she 'd felt affection for none until Lucy had come along .
27	Mr Shami Hoad , a heating engineer , who arrived at court with his wife Samantha , told Cheltenham magistrates that he 'd arrived at his home at Alma Place in Gloucester in July last year to find 2 strange men in his house .
28	It was that sort of occasion 500 women , many of them wearing posh hats and even posher outfits that they 'd bought for weddings and were longing for a chance to wear again .
29	She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent .