Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 'd k I 'd kept it like as evidence |
| 2 | I 'd coloured it in for you |
| 3 | Finished it all , and then , I just decided then I sorted out my washing , and then I decided what part I was gon na do , I 'd narrowed it down to either topic , task or topic erm , stable features , which are , sort of , erm , self confidence and things , and erm , how you you express yourself , and then a third one is like sex an and gender and age . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 6 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 7 | I told Spruce a bit about Amy and Hereward 's marriage and I did mention that I 'd seen her here on Friday night and Saturday morning . |
| 8 | ‘ Pa , if only I 'd made it up with you , ’ she cried . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish I 'd understood it more at the time . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd hidden them away for your birthday . ’ |
| 11 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 12 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 13 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 14 | ‘ I wish to God now I 'd lugged him back to his chain gang by the ear . |
| 15 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 16 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 17 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 18 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 19 | I 'd taken her back with a woolly suit , mitts , hat , booties , everything , in the middle of July . |
| 20 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 21 | A pity she really did have a cold on the morning she woke up and used her inhaler , the morning after I 'd taken it out of her hand-bag and added my little cocktail . |
| 22 | Only you never knew I 'd taken 'em round to Mr Bishop 's brother . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd worked it out to the last breath . |
| 24 | I 'd worked it down by moving my jaw as much as possible . |
| 25 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 26 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 27 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 28 | Therefore , Patterson was a bigger wig than I 'd had him down as . |
| 29 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose you 'd put it down to had management tactics , ’ sneered Ray . |