Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have made thousands over those university years , much to the annoyance of my own family , as I 'd rarely made the effort for them . |
| 2 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |
| 3 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
| 4 | I thought I 'd either holed my shot or that I had missed the green as well . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd particularly wanted a female barn owl , because they 're slightly larger and stronger than the males , and with the extra grey colouring or toning of their feathers , I think they 're more attractive . |
| 6 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 7 | That I was just a father , a husband — I 'd somehow ceased to exist as a person in my own right . ’ |
| 8 | This was n't the flawed , haggard Martinho I 'd latterly known but a clean , composed , god-like creature , the perfect Martinho of the peace-time Praça . |
| 9 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 10 | you once asked as though I 'd just begun |
| 11 | I 'm thinking about marketing my services on quality and relating to customers in a way that I 'd just begun to think of before but now it 's come right to the front . |
| 12 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 13 | Then I remember getting the Ramones album when I 'd just turned sixteen . |
| 14 | Andy was fourteen , I 'd just turned thirteen and was proud of my new status as a teenager ( and , as usual , of the fact that for the next couple of months I was only a year younger than Andy ) . |
| 15 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 16 | God , I was nearly in an accident last night , that reminds me , coming , I 'd just turned off the Wrexham road , er going along the Paisword one |
| 17 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 18 | The artist had fussed around while the thing was being loaded on my ship , babbling about how important it was and how delicate it was and so on , until I 'd just stopped listening . |
| 19 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 20 | ‘ Mother of God , I 'd just struck you . |
| 21 | I 'd just phoned it through and people started ringing up saying you know somebody 's mother tells me and can you come and do our son because he wants to do this and Yes sure . |
| 22 | I 'd just met this medium — how could she have known this ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 24 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 25 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
| 27 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 28 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 29 | Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet . |
| 30 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |