Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My favourite was a Wendy house which he 'd furnished with a tiny drop-leaf mahogany table , two matching chairs and a T.V. with clicking knobs and a picture of the Queen behind the perspex screen . |
| 2 | He 'd heard of a buyer with a hunger that was not being satisfied through conventional markets , and Klein had allowed it to be known that he might be able to lay his hands on something attractive . |
| 3 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 4 | He 'd faced foxes , he 'd helped to drive the Truck , he 'd flown on a goose — but none of them was half so bad as letting a human being actually touch him . |
| 5 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 6 | The viewers would just assume he 'd fallen into a cupboard and bang would go the impact of the scene . |
| 7 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 8 | Dane muttered something , and she froze , but after a moment he rolled over , and the sounds of his breathing told her he 'd fallen into a still deeper sleep . |
| 9 | She had n't taken his horse and left him when he 'd fallen into a stupor last night . |
| 10 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 11 | " There , " he said at last , when he 'd travelled in a half-circle . |
| 12 | A car driven by Shaun Gooch crashed into a group of young people , who 'd gathered by a bench on the side of Akers Way in Swindon . |
| 13 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 14 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 15 | A Christmas stocking — no , a pair of red tights , actually — filled up to here with pound notes that we 'd won on a strawberry roan named Cordelia . |
| 16 | Removing a pair of surgical gloves , he dropped them inside the open bag he 'd perched on a chair , closed the bag . |
| 17 | He did n't want to talk about it , and muttered that he 'd resigned over a matter of principle concerning next year 's timetable . |
| 18 | Looking around , he saw that he 'd parked outside a graveyard . |
| 19 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 20 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 21 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 22 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 23 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 24 | He visited them in Egypt , accompanied by a girl he 'd met in a bar , who proved to be a lesbian . |
| 25 | Not so long since I was in here myself , but I never dreamed Willis had not quite known what to bring , so he 'd decided on a packet of Whiffs . |
| 26 | She 'd decided on a plain pastoral view of the asylum and its grounds , it was supposed to be routine . |
| 27 | It was as if he 'd moved through a layer of reality and into something older , a prewar world of poor light and brown paint and damp walls . |
| 28 | Even his walk was changed : normally he 'd moved like a man with springs in his feet . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |