Example sentences of "[verb] 'd [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless many poets envied Duck , for whom the queen had ‘ Enlarg 'd thy Bottle , and enrich 'd thy Beer ’ . |
| 2 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |
| 3 | When-e'er you mow 'd I follow 'd with the Rake , |
| 4 | member of the US Congress whom Martin Chuzzlewit meets on board the steamboat returning from Eden , a chauvinistic windbag celebrated for a speech called ‘ the Pogram Defiance ’ which , Martin is informed by another passenger , ‘ defied the world in general to com-pete with our country upon any hook ; and develop 'd our internal resources for making war upon the universal airth ’ . |
| 5 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 6 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 7 | ‘ He 'd swim if he know 'd his boys had a public house . ’ |
| 8 | They have Betray 'd their Trust " . |
| 9 | The saucy Minx betray 'd her Pride , |
| 10 | Till he spoffer 'd who doon tha' ! |
| 11 | While Grief and Shame oppress 'd her tender Age , |
| 12 | I ask 'd thee , ‘ Give me immortality . ’ |
| 13 | Why I haue ask 'd you here |
| 14 | The reason is why I haue ask 'd you here . |
| 15 | But with thy brawls thou hast disturb 'd our sport . |
| 16 | This together with their long continuance in flower , has justly render 'd them the most valuable of all the sorts of flowering shrubs … the great Variety of different Sorts of Roses make a collection of Flowers , either for Basons or in the Garden , without any other additional mixture and their Scent , being the most inoffensive Sweet , is generally esteemed . |
| 17 | I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy . |
| 18 | I see 'd them sell them in the streets lots of times but I ai n't never tasted them like . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I see 'd him there , I cuts him down , I loosened the noose and it falls in the water . ’ |
| 20 | The ox hath therefore stretch 'd his yoke in vain . |
| 21 | I indulg 'd my Curiosity in calling upon her often , to see how she carried it on … |