Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 2 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 3 | I thought we 'd won this time . ’ |
| 4 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 5 | Looping the loop at a Manchester airshow as he 'd done many times before in the vintage Spitfire … pilot David Moore from Horsley near Stroud misjudged the manoeuvere . |
| 6 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 7 | Not that she 'd had much time to explore it , of course . |
| 8 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 9 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 10 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 11 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 12 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 13 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 14 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |