Example sentences of "'d [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.

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1 And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade .
2 As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden .
3 Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow .
4 She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face .
5 did you hear what I said , I think your , I do n't know if you 'd gone back in the house when I said , I 'll prepare , I 'll prepare the dinner
6 June Roberts said she 'd gone out in the car , saying nothing except that she 'd be back in time for cocktails at the Clarkes ' as she had promised , a business thing for Samuel .
7 He was I think he 'd passed out in the car .
8 And she 'd passed out in the phone box .
9 Michael had been hitting the phone , recruiting some key staff from hotels he 'd worked in in the past .
10 As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her .
11 At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives .
12 So he 'd rummaged around in the shadows , straightened up , glanced above him and there Jekub was .
13 I 'd come in in the middle of something .
14 He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer .
15 But er there was a lot there was a lot of girls and th I do n't know what had what had happened but I mean , that was the worst thing , he 'd went up in the lift and there was quite there was some other the rest of the people in the lift er was trapped and was burned to death you know , tragic end .
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