Example sentences of "[vb past] that i 'd " in BNC.
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1 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
2 | Thinking about it now , for the first time , I realized that I 'd no idea how a karaso was made : an arm-length shaft of wood , smooth and shiny as a newly opened conker , with five prongs at the end that were perfectly shaped into the smooth curves of a grasping hand . |
3 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
4 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
5 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
8 | Then , when I was about 18 or 19 I figured that I 'd learned every rock guitar lead that I ever wanted to know — all my favourite Ulrich Roth solos and all my favourite Frank Marino leads . |
9 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
10 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
11 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
12 | This was the day when I decided that I 'd had enough . |
13 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |
14 | Eventually I decided that I 'd had enough . |
15 | The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden . |
16 | ‘ It meant that I 'd got through all my policies … [ they ] all had a little bit of fun and expression and there was no change in policy . |
17 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
18 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
19 | ‘ It thought that I 'd sold its mate . |
20 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
21 | and thought that I 'd bought it . |
22 | ‘ I thought it might have something to do with the fact that when it emerged that I 'd received the letter , Ivy Cook would become persona non grata in the Miletti family . ’ |
23 | ‘ A young detective remembered that I 'd had something like that stolen , ’ he says . |
24 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
25 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
26 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |