Example sentences of "i 'd [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us have to work for our living , I 'd never have got anywhere if I 'd moved at your pace ! ’ |
| 2 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 3 | I 'd played at a club in Soho , even backed a few rock bands Lloyd had claimed to manage , and he 'd run a string of female mud wrestlers , mainly in the clip joint next door . |
| 4 | I put a hand into the language space and drew the briefcase to the front ; and it was of black crocodile skin with gold clasps , as I 'd seen at Nottingham races . |
| 5 | But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence . |
| 6 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 7 | He came and stood beside me and picked out one of the new abstracts I 'd done at home . |
| 8 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 9 | Yeah I put all the nurseries , all the placements I 'd done at college an at and the employment . |
| 10 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 11 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 12 | I packed the Scandinavian jersey I 'd worn at Woodbine into the suitcase just in case it jogged anyone 's memory , and got dressed in dark trousers , open-necked shirt and a short zipped navy jacket with lighter blue bands round waist and wrists . |
| 13 | I wish I 'd stayed at home to clean the oven after all . |
| 14 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 15 | ‘ I think Chelsea offers me the greater chance of winning something than if I 'd stayed at Carrow Road . |
| 16 | I got better results than if I 'd stayed at school . |
| 17 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 18 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 19 | Er is I 'd looked at the using their machine build which I 've built in , |
| 20 | I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge . |
| 21 | A Canadian reviewer said they looked like people I 'd found at a bus-stop , which I was very flattered by . ’ |
| 22 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 23 | Well when I was thirteen I supposed to be having b bad trouble and I went to doctor 's and instead of knocking off school at waiting till I was fourteen , I 'd finished at thirteen . |
| 24 | Later , much later , when I 'd refused at least seventeen attempts to ply me with drink , I found myself sitting at dinner , attempting to charm the ruling monarch 's fourth child . |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'd started at 17 or 18 , who knows what I might have achieved . |
| 26 | And I 'd started at six in the morning . |
| 27 | I 'd arrived at the Greenwood Theatre too late to hear Jonathan Ross get off his intro-line about Fashanu ‘ scoring ’ at the weekend . |
| 28 | I tried to muster the arguments I 'd arrived at with Brian nearly four years earlier , in the autumn of 1986 , after having heard Jacobsen making a tape . |
| 29 | After the day I 'd had at work . |
| 30 | Like one I 'd had at school . |