Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh det] [pers pn] 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 2 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 3 | The couples were offered alternative Churches at the same time on the same day as that which they 'd planned . |
| 4 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 5 | ‘ Everybody 's a contender , ’ Maxim said , so softly that Agnes had to think for a moment to be sure what she 'd heard . |
| 6 | He was n't sure what he 'd found out or how to phrase it . |
| 7 | When it did work , I was never sure what I 'd done right , and when it did n't , I was never sure what I had done wrong — it was very hit and miss . |
| 8 | But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth . |
| 9 | You were n't at all what I 'd imagined his beloved would be . ’ |
| 10 | Jack Butler was not at all what she 'd expected . |
| 11 | In fact , she was rather taken with the Obersturmfuhrer , who was n't at all what she 'd expected . |
| 12 | as if this was n't at all what he 'd bargained for . |
| 13 | It was uncanny what he 'd said to his Mum about Uncle Walter phoning up about his bad chest and now him being in hospital for real . |
| 14 | She told Spruce more or less what she 'd told the Archdeacon of her contact with Mrs Marr in London at St Sylvester 's Betterhouse mentioning Racy without revealing that he 'd phoned her on Sunday . |
| 15 | What he saw was more or less what he 'd expected ; lots of business , big crowds full of stupid people who were n't watching the traffic , every other window steamed-up and hung with a brace of Peking duck . |
| 16 | In the big chief 's private office Hartley informs me casually that what I 'd taken to be a ping pong ball-firing toy gun on the table behind me was actually an automatic 12-bore shotgun capable of delivering a dozen lethal rounds in quick succession . |
| 17 | In the big chief 's private office Hartley informs me casually that what I 'd taken to be a ping pong ball-firing toy gun on the table behind me was actually an automatic 12-bore shotgun capable of delivering a dozen lethal rounds in quick succession . |
| 18 | Was n't that what he 'd said ? |
| 19 | All the same , now she was older she had to admit that what he 'd done was n't so very terrible ; she 'd just reacted in an over-sensitive manner . |
| 20 | Was that what she 'd done ? |
| 21 | And even she had to admit that what she 'd seen the Prince show the old woman had seemed to be genuine respect and affection — |
| 22 | She lied to me , though , when I asked at about the age of eight what she 'd done : she said she 'd worked in an office , done clerical work . |