Example sentences of "'d [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first … ’ she paused in mid-stride , looking back enquiringly , ‘ you 'd better put in a call to the police . ’ |
| 2 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't ever , ’ and Donald took another breath , through his mouth this time , as if he 'd only surfaced for a moment , ‘ do n't EVER eat my beans again . ’ |
| 4 | at party yeah I was in the toilet yeah and this bloke comes in and goes oh and I 'd only got like a hit 's worth left |
| 5 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
| 6 | There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors . |
| 7 | I switched on the engine , closed my eyes and … felt like I 'd just stepped onto a corporation bus . |
| 8 | In deck shoes , casual close-fitting denim Bermudas , and black polo-shirt , his hair tousled as if he 'd just jumped off a boat , he looked very large and male and intimidating . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the first attack , he 'd just popped into a shop in the Lake District — and returned to find the panels of his £52,000 BMW 750i all kicked in . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 12 | It lasted only a year ( although there was no divorce until 1957 ) and some time after that Peter Lawford made the mistake of meeting Ava , who 'd just returned from a trip overseas , for a drink in a Hollywood restaurant . |
| 13 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd already gone on a beginners ’ sailing weekend , and although it was very rough — not beginners ' weather at all — I really loved it . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd already asked for a copy of the calendars of the Carmelite , Nicholas of Lyn . |
| 16 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 17 | It was the first time he 'd ever slept with a woman and it felt like burglary . |
| 18 | The worst marks she 'd ever got from an examiner . |
| 19 | Preston sometimes thought that Mother Bernie and William between them had ruined whatever chance he 'd ever had of a normal sex life . |
| 20 | When Nora came she would get her to run up to the flat and root out that paste thing she 'd once bought on a whim at Selfridges . |
| 21 | Indeed , we 'd often hooted at a poster of a diminutive Den , aged six , which bore the words : ‘ He 's six , he sings , he syncopates . ’ |
| 22 | Barricaded inside , Roger Jones , a 52 year old self-employed electrician , who 'd allegedly threatened with a shotgun 3 men who 'd called at his home . |
| 23 | In term time he spent nearly every weekend with us in London , sleeping in a small room which overlooked the garden , a room which we 'd previously used as a dressing room . |
| 24 | Funny … he 'd never heard of a company called ‘ Princes Street ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Keith added a huge thing to the band , ’ enthuses Bryan , ‘ and he 'd never recorded on an album before . |
| 26 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 27 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 28 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |