Example sentences of "who 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 2 | ‘ The gentleman who 'd been in with her would naturally have gone back to his room well before people started stirring . ’ |
| 3 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 4 | She had her introduction for the exhibition and Jay read it like she did n't know who 'd written it . |
| 5 | I remembered the friend of Aisha 's who 'd helped me escape from her house in London , carrying one of Aisha 's children , while I took my suitcase and dragged the other child along with me . |
| 6 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 7 | It was then we lost our guide , who was called to help a Bulgarian who 'd had an accident . |
| 8 | An owner , who 'd clearly been mistreating it , gave it back to its breeders . |
| 9 | This was the case with Marjorie , who 'd just accepted voluntary retirement after 20 years in her office . |
| 10 | I adopted an eight-year-old German Shepherd who 'd spent his life in kennels as a show/stud dog . |
| 11 | Such a drug , he suggests , would be not unlike crack , and the poor shmucks who were n't UMC would love it , while those who 'd worked so hard for their privileges would despise the short-cut : you 're either UMC or you are n't , simulacra wo n't do . |
| 12 | So here was this extremely awkward young man who 'd actually ploughed , had worked with horses , owned 40 acres and was anxious to write . |
| 13 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 14 | From somewhere I got the idea of going to art college I 'm sure it was because I 'd read about all the rock musicians who 'd started their bands at art colleges — John Lennon and Keith Richards in particular . |
| 15 | Also there were the people who 'd been coming in to the shop when it was still Let It Rock . |
| 16 | It 's not that Malcolm was a father-figure to us — as some have said — he was more like an elder brother who 'd actually been out there in the world and done it so he had the confidence and experience . |
| 17 | We 'd played in St. Albans and I 'd met a girl there , Claire , She was the Social Secretary at the college who 'd booked us in to play . |
| 18 | Then one day the main guy who 'd been peeking at us turned up and asked if he could take some pictures of us . |
| 19 | Turning to Charles Kettering , who 'd invented an electric motor small enough to power a National Cash Register , Leland asked if something similar could be adapted to the internal combustion engine . |
| 20 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 21 | Braving the cameras and the columnists , and the experts who 'd been brought in to analyse every glance and nuance of their body language , they faced the world , and slowly worked at healing the rift between them . |
| 22 | Time for the Clothes Show Magazine 's expert team to step into the limelight and take a bow : award-winning hairdresser , Anthony Mascolo , from Toni & Guy , and fashion assistant Saska Graville , who 'd been chosen to work on Yuri 's new look . |
| 23 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 24 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 25 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 26 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 27 | Lee , who 'd begun to climb it , trying to pull Caspar over with him , lost his balance and fell . |
| 28 | ‘ She should n't drive a car , ’ said his Mum , who 'd seen the car out too . |
| 29 | They were the only people who 'd been in his room except for his Dad last night . |
| 30 | Lee and Mrs Wright who 'd nearly reached the gate by the road turned and waited . |