Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 2 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 3 | So like , there was me sort of all of a sudden wearing like old T-shirts and stuff in bed so that I 'd got quite high collars and mum was sort of going |
| 4 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 5 | I used to put on that I 'd accepted it , but I did n't really . |
| 6 | Well , it 's just that I 'd heard … ’ |
| 7 | But I decided to give my countryman a chance , not that I 'd moved four thousand miles to be shown around London by a fellow American , and a hick from the provinces to boot . |
| 8 | Not that I 'd actually had nightmares about that . |
| 9 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 10 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 11 | mind you , not that I 'd lite , the fire , not the glow that 's what you did one night put the |
| 12 | Not that I 'd ever tried it , but , that sort of thing , semolina , and all that , |
| 13 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 14 | I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too . |
| 15 | I used to make out that I 'd changed . |
| 16 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 17 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 18 | I always wish now that I 'd met him . |
| 19 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 20 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 21 | Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine . |
| 22 | Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine . |
| 23 | Now that I 'd brought Jan , Cherry 's sulks might be the least of it . |
| 24 | It had n't crossed my mind , but I was grateful now that I 'd been too busy throwing up to examine the body too closely . |
| 25 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 26 | Before that I 'd been happy to think of him vaguely in terms of Sartre , de Beauvoir , Paris , existentialism , absurdity … |
| 27 | ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , well erm , see I advertised it all round cafe as well that I 'd sent for it as well . |
| 29 | Dexy 's Midnight Runners yeah so it was there were a few other weird names that I did n't that I 'd never heard before or since . |