Example sentences of "[that] [pron] 'd [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … . ’ |
| 4 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
| 5 | Then she stoops for some pebbles and warns that I 'd better come in now . |
| 6 | And er they drew their truncheons , that I 'd never seen before , policemen with truncheons , er and they started to run and everybody else started to run , and I forgot there was a puppy dog , this puppy dog it it chased it chased towards the er p policemen , and started er barking and d and carrying on , and one of the policemen did no more than thump it straight across the top of the head with a with a truncheon , and er and that was the end of the puppy . |
| 7 | going into something that I 'd never done before . |
| 8 | The candlelight on the peeling walls made scary shapes that I 'd never noticed before . |
| 9 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 10 | Dexy 's Midnight Runners yeah so it was there were a few other weird names that I did n't that I 'd never heard before or since . |
| 11 | But then you picked me up , and you made me your mission — and in spite of everything that I 'd lost , I gained something that I 'd never had before . |
| 12 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 13 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 14 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 15 | I thought it a bit off that she 'd never asked how I 'd got her pendant back . |
| 16 | She had a fine , strong man , power that she 'd never had before , respect and position as Lady of Duart . |
| 17 | And on the second count , now that she 'd virtually made up her mind to visit the warehouse tonight , did she really want to discover the truth , after all … ? |
| 18 | Just in time she stopped herself from confiding that she 'd almost forgotten how to dance . |
| 19 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ he went on , ‘ that you 'd already gone back to England . |
| 21 | We just used to hang around with each other and it was just one of those things , like , that you 'd never done before . |
| 22 | Then , at , the news that we 'd all worked so hard for . |
| 23 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 24 | Monsieur Venet , the proprietor 's son is the chef and cooks with a passion , creating dishes with wonderfully rich sauces and flavours that we 'd never savoured before . |
| 25 | It was fortunate that they 'd both driven back to the farmhouse after leaving the nightclub , before carrying on to the forest in Adam 's car , so her own vehicle was parked outside in the courtyard . |
| 26 | She told her parents how she and Susan had bumped into the two lads from Northallerton and that they 'd all gone together to the Lobster Pot for a drink . |
| 27 | She 'd been waiting outside his office for the best part of three hours when his secretary came to tell her that he 'd just phoned in . |
| 28 | There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered , rarely used now that he 'd almost given up . |
| 29 | But he rode hard to the end of the track and when he reached Baby Boy 's white cross he hesitated , then he turned right , into the mountains , something that he 'd never done before . |
| 30 | He looked along this end of Mrs Wright 's house that he 'd never seen before . |