Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress . |
| 32 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
| 33 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 34 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 35 | she 'd gone out , she 'd just slipped out with Alice for something |
| 36 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 37 | On hearing of the don 's disappearance , she 'd naturally rushed up to Oxford in the hope of tracking down her precious notes . |
| 38 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 39 | So I rang the midwife again , who decided she 'd better come over after all . |
| 40 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 41 | An innocent who 'd somehow wandered down into the rat run , just asking to get bitten . |
| 42 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 43 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 44 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 45 | There was a desert island room , a medieval castle , a railway Pullman carriage , a dungeon , a school classroom , and a hospital ward for those who 'd never grown out of playing doctors and nurses . |
| 46 | Some , they said had been declared unroadworthy by the Department of Transport who 'd then banned then from the roads and others were needed as evidence of alleged offences . |
| 47 | The next minute , he was the teasing , confident extrovert who 'd calmly stripped off in front of her in his bedroom that night . |
| 48 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 49 | But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! — |
| 50 | stayed and Andy 's and we 'd just gone over to the shops and . |
| 51 | A portion of the top floor we 'd completely sealed off with walls of polythene sheeting , and a powerful dehumidifier had been installed . |
| 52 | But yeah he probably come past no he probably went up there as we come down that corner by erm Ipsleigh and when they come back we 'd probably gotten here by then . |
| 53 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 54 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |
| 55 | It was fortunate that they 'd both driven back to the farmhouse after leaving the nightclub , before carrying on to the forest in Adam 's car , so her own vehicle was parked outside in the courtyard . |
| 56 | They had been on stand-by since 10.00 a.m. and it was now after one o'clock , but they were as crisp and well-tailored as if they 'd just stepped on to the plane . |
| 57 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 58 | Well a a a at the time , they 'd just changed over from the erm Tenants ' Development Association , to the Tenants ' Action Group , so it was a bit disorganized to begin with , cos we were still sorting out the , everything from what they 'd left over and things , so , but once we 'd got that all so once they 'd got that all sorted out , yeah , it was . |
| 59 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
| 60 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |