Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 3 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 4 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
| 6 | In the past I 'd just resented how long he spent in the office . |
| 7 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 8 | Well I 'd just got there , it was just between quarter past and ten past and twelve were there . |
| 9 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 10 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 11 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 12 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
| 13 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
| 14 | I 'd just got far enough to notice |
| 15 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd just got out of bed — I was half asleep , ’ she tried , without much conviction . |
| 17 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 18 | My head shook as though I 'd just knocked back some hundred-proof whisky . |
| 19 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 20 | oh I 'd rather gone out , I think there 's , there 's one of those |
| 21 | Ooh he kept , but he kept I 'd even worked out my train to , from Ealing down |
| 22 | I 'd also forgotten how many nasty stinging things there were in the country . |
| 23 | He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island . |
| 24 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd best go down and see if I can help , I suppose . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I thought I 'd best get as far from Dalston as I could , so I came this side of London Bridge and looked for lodgings . |
| 27 | I was passing when I saw the gates not shut properly , so I thought I 'd best come in and see if everything was all right at the house … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I thought I 'd already pointed out , this is my boat . ’ |
| 29 | There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it . |
| 30 | I 'd already given up trying to please my father . |