Example sentences of "'d [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |
| 2 | Particularly to people who 'd through that at you , in the campaign . |
| 3 | But she was all Terry 's Liz were going mad cos she 'd through to garage . |
| 4 | He claimed that there were places in the past where ‘ men 's lives were longer , when plain homely diet and bodily labour were much used , and shorter when more civiliz 'd times delighted in idleness , and wanton luxury ’ . |
| 5 | But was damnably plagu 'd for to find out the Sign |
| 6 | Whatever was wanted , was halloo 'd for , and the servants halloo 'd out their excuses from the kitchen . |
| 7 | The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence . |
| 8 | They used to pay , perhaps , thirty five a head or something like that for the summer , whole summer till November , then you 'd say they 'd for home again , yeah . |
| 9 | you ought to say you but she you know , that I 'd for someone |
| 10 | It sounds sufficiently tedious in an English public school fashion , an effect compounded by a little book of mock verses , Noctes Binanianae , composed mainly in the summer and autumn of 1937 ; it was privately printed and announced as " Certain Voluntary and Satyrical Verses and Compliments as were lately Exchang 'd between some of the Choicest Wits of the Age " . |
| 11 | I have long dream 'd of such a kind of man , |
| 12 | Then he said , ‘ I 've managed to get a sprinkling of young men , and there 's one in particular I 'd like you to meet . ’ |
| 13 | Advanc 'd above pale envy 's threat'ning reach . |
| 14 | Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans , |
| 15 | Nay , would I were so anger 'd with the same ! |
| 16 | In Beaumont and Fletcher 's The Maid 's Tragedy , Melantius , approving his sister 's marriage to his best friend , tells her : ‘ Sister , I joy to see you , and your choice/You look 'd with my eyes when you took that man ’ ( i. ii . |
| 17 | The glass for this could , Miller suggested , be of inferior quality for the top , but the front should be ‘ glaz 'd with new Castle Glass ’ . |
| 18 | One , seldom more than three feet high and called by Ray the Dwarf Red Rose , had small flowers and rounded buds which before opening appeared ‘ as if they had been clipp 'd with Scissars ’ . |
| 19 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 20 | I remember I saw , two or three Years before my Acquaintance with her commenced , a Book about the Size of a common Copy-Book ( but something thicker ) fill 'd with Poems of her writing , that much pleas 'd me . |
| 21 | Of some induc 'd with gaudy Knights to roam |
| 22 | Too dearly purchas 'd with a thousand Pound . |
| 23 | Too dearly purchas 'd with a thousand Pound |
| 24 | The Soul unstain 'd with Envy or with Pride , |
| 25 | Pleas 'd with itself and all the World beside , |
| 26 | They look decay 'd with Posset , and with Plumbs , |
| 27 | When-e'er you mow 'd I follow 'd with the Rake , |
| 28 | And cap 'd with Ice the distant Mountains shine ; |
| 29 | And the brown Bowls were crown 'd with simp'ring Ale ; |
| 30 | Sarah Hare , the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth Hare of Stow Bardolph , Norfolk , was very specific regarding the simplicity of her grave-clothes and coffin , making her wishes abundantly clear in her will of 1743 : ‘ … my coffin to be made of the best Elm lin 'd with a thinn lead with a flap of lead sawder 'd down over me , not to have a nail or any ornament that is not absolutely necessary , except a plate with my coat of arms and with this inscription : They that humble themselves shall be Exalted . ’ |