Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 32 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 33 | A holy man who 'd prepared for his death , who might even , perhaps , have welcomed it . |
| 34 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 35 | Nathan thought of the shotgun locked under his chin ; he 'd held himself so rigid that night that he 'd ached for three days afterwards . |
| 36 | There had been so much to see and she 'd ached for Fernando to be beside her to show her everything . |
| 37 | We 'd saved for it , taken enormous care in choosing the location , even-God spare us in our mortal error-looked forward to the holiday . |
| 38 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 39 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 40 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 41 | Birmingham City 's Peter Crawford , who claimed a ‘ school record ’ for the number of suspensions from Mirfield Secondary School , was taken , along with other pupils , to the then Aston Manor Club ( now Aston Villa ABC ) by ‘ a school teacher called Kane who 'd boxed for Ireland at one stage ’ . |
| 42 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 43 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 44 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 45 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 46 | She was enjoying the life she 'd made for herself here in Nottingham , and now she 'll have to go elsewhere . |
| 47 | That they were pleased with whatever deal they 'd made for my release . |
| 48 | Ivan had given it to him , with the wooden doll he 'd made for Valeria . |
| 49 | ‘ It was the first speech I 'd made for ages . |
| 50 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 51 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 52 | A glimmer of sun , the first they 'd seen for days in a chillier than average English summer , was gilding the meadow-sweet creamy-white in the tangled hedgerows . |
| 53 | There 's a photograph of him standing in front of the cabbages that he 'd grown for victory wearing his Home Guard uniform . |
| 54 | But before Lucy could answer Doreen leaned forward and lied in a sweet voice , ‘ I told Miss Telford that you 'd said for her to get into the bus . |
| 55 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 56 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 57 | His bedroom was the Sleeping Beauty scene he 'd done for Biba 's children 's department and the kitchen area was full of artificial trees — which his party guests used to piss against . |
| 58 | SHe knew he was holed up at Roirbak 's place , and was convinced hir instincts were right that Malamute hated Penumbra and was coping with moral dilemmas about what he 'd done for her . |
| 59 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 60 | But then , he did n't know what she 'd done for him and was going to do . |