Example sentences of "[be] what [pron] 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I had been what you 'd imagined , I 'd look like an assassin , and you 'd say I was too obvious . ’ |
| 2 | Well that 's what they 'd said to Melody Maker . |
| 3 | Yeah that 's what they 'd said to Melody Maker . |
| 4 | The reference call to the hotel , The Randolph — that 's what he 'd remembered clearest of all , really : he 'd looked up the telephone number and then been put through , on the extension given to him by his client , to the Deputy Manageress , who had promptly and effusively vouched for the bona fides of Rent-a-Car 's prospective customer . |
| 5 | That 's what he 'd told them , and now they were waiting . |
| 6 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 7 | I 'd chosen London over Oxford , and that 's what I 'd got . |
| 8 | That 's what I 'd overlooked . |
| 9 | With a little shake of her head , she changed it to , ‘ I need to know if Gramps knew that 's what you 'd said . ’ |
| 10 | If members would accept the additional resolution which stands in my name erm which reads this is what we 'd copied to all district councils and they would be made aware of the county council 's views on the matter . |
| 11 | Is what I 'd expected to happen actually happening ? |
| 12 | This is what she 'd grown into . ’ |
| 13 | Slice the top off , scoop out the seeds , and a drop of Oporto is what she 'd said . |
| 14 | The route , at least , was what they 'd said , and so with nothing worse than the altitude to battle against , we reached the summit with ample time to absorb the views . |
| 15 | It was what he 'd said . |
| 16 | That was what he 'd said . |
| 17 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 18 | This was what he 'd wanted of her all the time ; now , he was finally getting to it , baiting the trap not with jewels or furs but with what he assumed would matter to her . |
| 19 | Her expression arrested , she wondered if that was what he 'd meant . |
| 20 | That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain . |
| 21 | That was what he 'd dropped , was n't it ? |
| 22 | ‘ I was so angry I started to cry , but the stylist insisted it was what I 'd asked for . |
| 23 | It was what I 'd said to Bill Mabbeley . |
| 24 | It was what I 'd said to him , near enough . |
| 25 | That was what I 'd had my eye on . |
| 26 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
| 27 | It was what I 'd worked for for twenty years . |
| 28 | It was what she 'd suspected all along , of course . |
| 29 | That was what she 'd told herself . |
| 30 | I 'm keeping that one till the last , was what she 'd told Carrie . |