Example sentences of "who 'd [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They belonged to a friend of his who 'd decided to get off the sinking ship quickly . |
| 2 | The centre-piece was a perspiring bloke who was plainly at the end of his tether and at the other end of the tatty tether was a huge hairy bundle who 'd decided he was now one of the family and acting in a suitably demented manner ; noise effects included whoops , cheers , shrieks , curses , admonitions and deep explosive barks which provided punctuation in the manner of the cannon fire in the 1812 Overture . |
| 3 | Lee , who 'd begun to climb it , trying to pull Caspar over with him , lost his balance and fell . |
| 4 | Her mother had thought she would fail and had pinned all her hopes on Dana , who 'd begun to attract the attention of the Press . |
| 5 | From me , who 'd loved you almost half a year . |
| 6 | The man who 'd stayed the night . |
| 7 | Let his colleagues con themselves if they wished but he knew that Tech-Green , for all its grand , humane claims , was no better than the monetarist governments who 'd reigned and toppled before them . |
| 8 | Nowadays the graphic designers who 'd converted the oast houses into very bijou residences all commuted to their dockland offices in the East End . |
| 9 | A crowd of people who 'd heard the music and the laughter from outside stood in the doorway , smiling bemusedly . |
| 10 | He could have saved John , but because he did n't want to look soft in front of all the important people who 'd heard him promise Herodias ' daughter whatever she wanted , Herod killed John as requested . |
| 11 | ‘ What was she , some lonely widow who 'd heard about your hip ? ’ |
| 12 | Meredith was determined to show him that she could do without arrogant bankers who 'd heard half a story and jumped to the wrong conclusions . |
| 13 | ‘ You should have hired one who 'd heard of Brooklyn , because that 's where I was . ’ |
| 14 | Sadly , we could only find 3 people who 'd heard it . |
| 15 | But even those who 'd heard the news seemed undeterred . |
| 16 | ‘ We could all be dead in six months , ’ she replied , shaking her head with an air of someone who 'd heard those sort of stories before . |
| 17 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 18 | West Kensington itself was made up of rows of five-storey peeling stucco houses broken up into bed-sits that were mostly occupied by foreign students , itinerants and poor people who 'd lived there for years . |
| 19 | I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English . |
| 20 | Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs . |
| 21 | Jim , a lorry driver who 'd lived in the area for forty years , had spent Christmas with friends , but disappeared from view until his body was found in his house . |
| 22 | 2 men , Paul Bryant , aged 29 , and who 'd lived in Cheltenham before the robbery , and Mark Cunnliffe , also 29 , from Derby , are accused of robbery , attempted murder , and possessing a firearm . |
| 23 | In St Erconwald 's church , Athelstan had just finished the Mass for the dead and was now blessing the corpse of Tosspot , an old drunkard who 'd lived in the cellars of the Piebald Horse tavern . |
| 24 | They took a chair which belonged to the eighteenth century English poet , Alexander Pope who 'd lived there while writing the first English translation of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 25 | After all , he was the man who 'd sacked her predecessor simply in order to make room for her . |
| 26 | Detective Sergeant Alen Gibb , who 'd questioned Harper . |
| 27 | who 'd lacerated his back |
| 28 | One day in a bar he ran into two of the people who 'd attended the meetings , Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher . |
| 29 | She was almost abject with gratitude to Drew who 'd insisted she use his Land-Rover as her base , and who 'd come up specially that morning to invite her to lunch and to watch the match with him and Sukey . |
| 30 | Then she absolved herself by remembering it was he who 'd insisted on accompanying her . |