Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |
| 2 | Was it because she 'd broken the seventh commandment ? |
| 3 | There was little chance of his being hit , but he slipped deliberately , pitching forward , striking the ground with his shoulder and rolling fast for the ravine where he 'd hidden the first gun . |
| 4 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
| 5 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I 'd seen the last of this particular fashion accessory . ’ |
| 7 | Had n't she thought she 'd seen the last of Rourke Deveraugh ? |
| 8 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 9 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |
| 10 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 11 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 12 | It 's a good job they 'd got the second book off to the publishers . |
| 13 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 14 | ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says . |
| 15 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 16 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 17 | I kept making the point on Saturday here at Lane Martin , that I did n't think that erm we 'd had the last of the goals as they kept er popping in at both ends , and I 'm sure though we 've had three with a little over half an hour played here , we have n't seen the last of the goals here either . |
| 18 | He 'd called the next day , and Marlin had picked up . |
| 19 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 20 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 21 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 22 | He 'd spoken the last words in Italian , and in Italian as fluent and colloquial as his own she answered , ‘ I 'm sorry about that . |
| 23 | Somehow he 'd scored the first small , barely discernible victory . |
| 24 | He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly . |
| 25 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 26 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 27 | When she 'd finished the second glass , he was still there , and still trying to catch her eye . |
| 28 | Joe did n't speak again until we 'd finished the second stage . |
| 29 | It was so bad , I 'd be looking forward to the next meal before I 'd finished the last one , ’ she says . |
| 30 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |