Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser .
2 I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one .
3 He 'd fallen from a second floor window .
4 He 'd trusted for the last time .
5 I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them .
6 And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off .
7 It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time .
8 A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up
9 We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village .
10 ‘ Tell me , ’ he 'd said to the first .
11 now I 've got two little girls he said I hate to turn away knowing what he 'd done to the last little girl
12 He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand .
13 by the time I 'd got to the next one
14 To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road .
15 Matter of of people who 'd died in the first world war .
16 Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’
17 If you spotted a smart black-and-white magpie in a field , that was certainly one , but if , when you 'd walked into the next field , you saw another , was that two or another one ?
18 Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date .
19 In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! !
20 Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ .
21 He 'd fought in the last war and is a very intelligent and basically optimistic person , like John .
22 They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry .
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