Example sentences of "i 'd [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I 'd broken into this solicitor 's and all there was there was this big safe , y'know the type I mean , a big square box that was on this big slab of polished wood . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 3 | I saw it twice , the second time to see what I 'd missed through racked sobs the first time . |
| 4 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 5 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 6 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 7 | Oh I , I 'd gone over several times , oh yes . |
| 8 | I 'd gone through three packets of tissues from the canteen , and a flunkey had been dispatched to Underwoods to buy me a large box of Men 's Size . |
| 9 | Actually I wish I 'd gone like this years ago cos you get |
| 10 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 11 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 12 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 13 | I 'd ridden over many jumps before , but never on a racehorse , never fast , never caring so much about the outcome . |
| 14 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 15 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 16 | The welcome from son and wife was the first warmth I 'd felt in seven days . |
| 17 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 18 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 19 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 20 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 21 | But as the course went on , I realised I 'd backed off some decisions , and shut myself of from what my superiors were saying . |
| 22 | He told me to come back after I 'd starved off ten pounds . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It put me right up in the mood again , I 'd forgotten about that sort of intensity . |
| 24 | I 'd lusted after these peaks for some time , but a decision has to be made about how to get at them . |
| 25 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |