Example sentences of "'d just [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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1 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
2 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
3 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
4 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
5 | Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level . |
6 | It lasted only a year ( although there was no divorce until 1957 ) and some time after that Peter Lawford made the mistake of meeting Ava , who 'd just returned from a trip overseas , for a drink in a Hollywood restaurant . |
7 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
8 | If you 'd just rung from Bryn 's place I could have at least made myself presentable , cariad ! ’ |
9 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |