Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 2 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 3 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 4 | What about if you 'd received a harsher sentence ? |
| 5 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 6 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 7 | I nodded , feeling a sense of relief , as if we 'd cleared some giant obstacle in a fog . |
| 8 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 9 | ‘ We were over the moon and had a great sense of achievement — as if we 'd done something terribly clever , ’ says Susi , who has just given birth to her first baby . |
| 10 | In the ground it was , as Strach said , as if we 'd won the cup or something . |
| 11 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 12 | I do n't exactly feel as if we 'd had our monies worth there . |
| 13 | Then , as if they 'd recovered from the surprise , they began to laugh , snorting and giggling in delight at the water being thrown at them , like two children playing a game . |
| 14 | I never would have credited that people would talk about these illusions as if they 'd really taken place . ’ |
| 15 | But Patsy and Tim wanted a few simple cupboards painted white , made to look as if they 'd always been there . |
| 16 | Shelves lined the walls on which stood magical pots — organic , looking as if they 'd grown rather than been made , with the colours of the trees , the earth and the sea merging in the glaze . |
| 17 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 18 | Sticking straight up out of the sea as if they 'd grown there . |
| 19 | Even the drainpipes , clinging half-heartedly to cracked walls and rusty gutters , looked as if they 'd had enough . |
| 20 | They just disappeared , as if they 'd popped into trap doors and been spirited away . |
| 21 | Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 24 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 25 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 26 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 27 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 28 | The crushing weariness was a formidable enemy , though , and she felt her eyelids drooping as if they 'd been weighted . |
| 29 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 30 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |