Example sentences of "'d [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd carried it around with him , framed by the mirror 's gilt , like some kind of talisman . |
| 2 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 3 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 4 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 5 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 6 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 7 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 8 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 9 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 10 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 11 | His tone suggested he 'd caught her out in some minor misdemeanour , Loretta thought angrily — putting penny coins in a parking meter , or dodging fares on the underground . |
| 12 | But they were waiting and , into a pause , he mentioned that he 'd met them over at Jimmy 's . |
| 13 | By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street . |
| 14 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 15 | ‘ Pa , if only I 'd made it up with you , ’ she cried . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose you 'd put it down to had management tactics , ’ sneered Ray . |
| 17 | He 'd sought her out in her sanctuary , confirmed her belief with the tender , arousing touch of the perfect lover , and she 'd learned enough from him to return his caresses with a woman 's intimate knowledge of how to pleasure the body of the man she loved . |
| 18 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 19 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 20 | Not since he 'd seen him off from Nanking back in November ‘ 03 . |
| 21 | He 'd seen nothing out of the way . |
| 22 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 23 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 24 | I thought they 'd hung me up by my arms , ’ he began , and then he stopped short , remembering that the Punishment Squad could not do that to a crippled man with one arm . |
| 25 | They 'd cleaned it up since then and taken the soot out . |
| 26 | I just said ‘ Yes ? ’ and as I dropped the pen she 'd handed me back into her bag , I noticed that she carried at least two fat rolls of ten-pound notes secured with circular gold clips shaped like salamanders , or maybe alligators . |
| 27 | Then , deciding she was no political , just another stroppy trucker , they 'd handed her over to the locals , which was a big relief . |
| 28 | And , they 'd handed it over to us and then obviously they wanted it back , but then |
| 29 | I understand it was your own stupidity in refusing to accept Silas 's ring until he 'd got her out of the house . |
| 30 | Then on , they 'd got it on from time to happy time , eaten together every week , seen movies , theatre , films , drag , done disco , reggae , boogie … |