Example sentences of "[Wh pn] 'd [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 2 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |
| 3 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 4 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 5 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 6 | Women passengers who 'd nodded off in full make-up emerged with faces crumpled and ankles swollen . |
| 7 | She had no sympathy for the rich , spoiled girl who 'd walked out of her room and disappeared . |
| 8 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 9 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 10 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the argument between the vegetarians and the farmers over who 'd chickened out of the original challenge goes on . |
| 12 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |