Example sentences of "i 'd [adv] " 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 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 10 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 11 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
| 12 | ‘ They said I 'd just got 50-60 years wear out of the knee in 15 years . ’ |
| 13 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 14 | At that point I 'd just left St Martin 's . |
| 15 | ‘ When I bought this hat , I 'd just had a horrible haircut so it covered up the mistake nicely . ’ |
| 16 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's got the vote now — he 's out of our jurisdiction , ’ Otley said eating a custard tart I 'd Just bought . |
| 18 | I 'd just met this medium — how could she have known this ? ’ |
| 19 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 23 | I did water-colours mostly but I 'd just started painting in oils and felt I had quite a talent for it , but they were n't very encouraging … |
| 24 | I 'd just finished it when it was time to get off . |
| 25 | ‘ How do you make a karaso ? ’ said Kalchu , repeating the question I 'd just asked him . |
| 26 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then I remember getting the Ramones album when I 'd just turned sixteen . |
| 29 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 30 | I 'd just got my licence and I drove into Manhattan , because I got my licence the day I turned sixteen . |