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 .
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