Example sentences of "i [verb] i 'd [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 2 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 3 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 4 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 5 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 6 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 7 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 8 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 9 | Yes , we have , mm , but I suppose I 'd been because I do n't want the bother of , yes . |
| 10 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 11 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 13 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 14 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 16 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 18 | At first I thought I 'd been commissioned to rewrite The Archers theme . |
| 19 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 20 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 21 | I thought I 'd been framed . ’ |
| 22 | I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema . |
| 23 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 24 | I think I 'd been Yes a few weeks couple of three weeks perhaps in the slate yard behind there , they used to make slates for schools there . |
| 25 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 26 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 27 | I told my supplier — you know , I said I 'd been done over , I had no money , n. stuff . |
| 28 | I wished I 'd been able to take a photograph of gaunt-face , but I 'd been more keen to listen . |
| 29 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |
| 30 | I wish I 'd been around when the Titanic |