Example sentences of "she 'd [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives . |
| 2 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 3 | Fabia blinked , ‘ You — did ? ’ she enquired slowly , it never having dawned on her that Ven would be overly worried that she 'd lit out . |
| 4 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 5 | She decided to go back to work — but first wanted to catch up on the qualifications she 'd missed out on . |
| 6 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 7 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 8 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 9 | She 'd moved in on and in with Dionne , spitting scorn at her friends , slurring drunk at parties . |
| 10 | When she 'd moved in , it had been no more than a yard full of builders ' rubbish . |
| 11 | ‘ But not close enough to know she 'd moved out ? ’ |
| 12 | She 'd crept out through her bedroom window , but she 'd left half a dozen coarse blonde hairs behind her , flickering on the damaged flyscreen wire , like evidence . |
| 13 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 14 | It was mostly soft grass and woodchips here , and she 'd stepped out of her shoes and was now carrying them , walking barefoot . |
| 15 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 16 | As she had dressed she 'd kept on asking herself why he had come . |
| 17 | Over the years , she 'd kept back a portion , every week , of the money Wakelate gave her to buy food at the market . |
| 18 | A few of them would have been a serious giveaway in any frontier search , but these she 'd covered over with postcard views bought from the Europiskaya Hotel . |
| 19 | and erm and that 's what erm , the teacher came and said she 'd fallen out of erm one of the , er I think she said bogeys or something ? |
| 20 | Before I could reply , she 'd whisked off , running up the aisle after the last leaver , waving her little red hat at me from the doorway like a rallying signal . |
| 21 | She 'd circled the block until she 'd found the side alley where the stage door was located , and then after hiding her bag in a dark spot behind a big wheeled trash hopper she 'd turned around and headed back to the coffee shop . |
| 22 | The client expresses and believes in different , more rational interpretations — ‘ There is no rule which says somebody must love someone else , it would have been great if she 'd turned up but there are other girls I could ask out . |
| 23 | Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty . |
| 24 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 25 | To hear him tell it you 'd think they 'd had a date and she 'd turned up late ! |
| 26 | After she 'd turned off , she became tired and nervous . |
| 27 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 28 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 29 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 30 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |