Example sentences of "who 'd [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English . |
| 2 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 3 | West Kensington itself was made up of rows of five-storey peeling stucco houses broken up into bed-sits that were mostly occupied by foreign students , itinerants and poor people who 'd lived there for years . |
| 4 | They took a chair which belonged to the eighteenth century English poet , Alexander Pope who 'd lived there while writing the first English translation of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 5 | The chap who 'd called out was the one in the pub who 'd told Mary Mauchline to go and rattle her can , the same Mary Mauchline he now held in his arms . |
| 6 | Ostensibly it was the life story of an eighteenth-century naval officer who 'd whiled away his spare time documenting and researching contemporary erotica . |
| 7 | I did n't find out he was the artist who 'd done all of the paintings until the end of the conversation and that was basically what ended the conversation : I just ran off ! |
| 8 | But no , The Day Leeds Won The Title they were n't there , apart from one fat bloke called Jimmy who 'd gone out hoping for a quiet drink … |
| 9 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 10 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 11 | Later in the week , the training officer put asterisks against the names of trainees who 'd achieved less than £2,000 worth of business through the whole week . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not every day that someone wanders on to my property and , when charged at by a Dobermann who 'd shot off as I closed the door after us , goes blithely forward and greets it with the words , ‘ Hello , darling ’ , ’ he replied , reminding her , had she forgotten , that , the dog never far from his control outside of the house , he had soon been on the spot to witness events . |
| 13 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 14 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |
| 15 | ‘ No wonder the men who 'd served out their time put their savings into market stalls and little businesses , tanneries , dye-works , gardens . |
| 16 | It had , in fact , been sent to a counsellor by a client who 'd moved away before finishing therapy . |
| 17 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 18 | Just what did he think she was — a spoilt little rich kid who 'd grown up being waited on hand and foot ? |
| 19 | ‘ I mean , how was I to know you were n't a sex-mad pervert who 'd broken in and hideously raped you before coming after me ? ’ |
| 20 | Through her own trusting innocence she was alone with a man who 'd stated quite clearly that he wanted her . |
| 21 | Chairman there were three areas of concern , the longer term objective were of course the bypass , that is some way into the future , the more the media is , that is concerned with traffic calming the more comprehensive traffic calming would be the subject of some in depth study who 'd defined exactly what pieces of , of traffic are most suitable for that village , but one element and that was to do with |
| 22 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 23 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 24 | As they did detectives continued their search for the driver who 'd disappeared immediately after the crash . |
| 25 | Women passengers who 'd nodded off in full make-up emerged with faces crumpled and ankles swollen . |
| 26 | We felt from this that there was , there was reasonable evidence to introduce this programme into our practice , and we , we looked at our patients erm at and , and we looked at all patients who 'd had moderately or well-differentiated transition cell carcinoma of the bladder at diagnosis , a non-invasive tumour , small , solitary , with a minimum follow up of one year . |
| 27 | In the gloom , she pictured the sad , mad people who 'd walked there . |
| 28 | She had no sympathy for the rich , spoiled girl who 'd walked out of her room and disappeared . |
| 29 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 30 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |