Example sentences of "thing [pers pn] 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was the most beautiful thing I 'd ever seen , ’ says Elliott reverently . |
| 2 | My parents thought my marriage was the first sensible thing I 'd ever done . |
| 3 | And school was another thing I 'd had enough of . |
| 4 | It was the most embarrassing thing I 'd ever experienced in my life — and in front of Peter . |
| 5 | Round about four o'clock he did a thing I 'd never known him do since I got there — he started to play his guitar . |
| 6 | We wondered what to do next , because the only other thing I 'd ever done was box . |
| 7 | It was the first thing I 'd ever kept from her . |
| 8 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 9 | To me it meant that your involvement with Jones went deeper than the superficial thing I 'd been imagining . |
| 10 | I thought that was one thing I 'd better not do . |
| 11 | I remember being given a box of fancy chocolates , the kind of thing I 'd never had before . |
| 12 | Yeah , but the thing I 'd smu my mum would we do n't want one as far as these . |
| 13 | When Nora came she would get her to run up to the flat and root out that paste thing she 'd once bought on a whim at Selfridges . |
| 14 | Dimly , she thought that was n't the romantic kind of thing she 'd envisioned saying at this point , but what did it matter ? |
| 15 | It was the only thing she 'd been wearing that had n't come away when they undressed . |
| 16 | The one good thing she 'd done was to give him Claire as a sister . |
| 17 | She loved Hyde Park because it was the nearest thing she 'd seen to the country side since she had arrived in the capital . |
| 18 | After a half-hour programme with Bristol tennis girl Jo Durie , once in the top half dozen in the international ratings , she said it was by far the toughest thing she 'd ever done on television . |
| 19 | The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil |
| 20 | Applying his make-up was the hardest thing she 'd ever done , her hands shaking as she smoothed a base coat over his skin . |
| 21 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 22 | She made coq au vin on his birthday , painstakingly following a recipe ( a thing she 'd not done since basic cookery lessons at school ) and he was so pleased he bought her a Cordon Bleu cookbook . |
| 23 | The only thing she 'd been worried about was Jake finding out . |
| 24 | The only thing she 'd been trying to do was calm Guido down and defuse the situation . |
| 25 | Somehow that was the last thing she 'd expected to hear . |
| 26 | That was another thing she 'd noticed . |
| 27 | Deceptively heavy eyelids gave her face an air of sleepy sensuality which boyfriends vowed was the most tantalising thing they 'd ever seen , but which she always felt quite at odds with her true feelings . |
| 28 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 29 | At least it was n't a garret , he would have said , which was the only other thing they 'd been offered . |
| 30 | One thing he 'd learned how to do . |