Example sentences of "[vb past] she 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie wanted to say that the way she felt she doubted she 'd ever want to eat again , but did n't . |
| 2 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 3 | She protested she 'd rather freeze than wear the coat Lily had bought her . |
| 4 | From the gal who swore she 'd rather be dragged across a plain by wild horses than wear lipgloss , this comes as something of a surprise . |
| 5 | But it seemed even that could do little more than dull the edges of the pain , and , when she woke up one morning with a painful hangover and realised the ache in her heart was just as strong as it had ever been , she swore she 'd never again attempt to deal with her sorrows that way . |
| 6 | BRIGITTE Bardot 's happiness is complete as she shares a proud , loving moment with her long-lost son Nicolas and the grand-daughter she feared she 'd never meet . |
| 7 | She had no idea what he meant , and if she tried to answer she knew she 'd only cry . |
| 8 | She knew she 'd never see him again . |
| 9 | I knew she 'd never finish that book . |
| 10 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
| 11 | Had he really only taken her on because he fancied her and thought she 'd never be a threat to his position ? |
| 12 | I remember I said to Billy something like , ‘ I thought she 'd never go . |
| 13 | It 's a day she thought she 'd never live to see . |
| 14 | She thought she 'd only get commended or highly commended . |
| 15 | I should n't have put it so strongly , but I never thought she 'd actually go … |
| 16 | its really cold , yeah oh that was good , I enjoyed that she 's still there , she 's a Lance Corporal now as well and I must admit well I , I did n't think she 'd ev , she was always crying but I never thought she 'd actually do very well in the T A , did n't seem to have the get up and go about it but she obviously sorted herself out and got , Spambo Man they called me . |
| 17 | And even if she did she 'd never get her hands dirty helping in a kitchen ! ’ |
| 18 | And even if she did she 'd hardly be likely to tell me — it would have been gossip . |
| 19 | ‘ She said she 'd probably be bored with young Adam by Fez . ’ |
| 20 | Catherine said she 'd probably be alright , I mean she woke , she would have been tired anyway , you know what I mean , especially after swimming , the water they gave bath water , it 's not like the |
| 21 | ‘ Arabella said she 'd rather die than live in Wimbledon . ’ |
| 22 | When a policeman told her it was an offence to deface her driving licence by stabbing a nailfile through her date of birth , she said she 'd rather go to prison . |
| 23 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 24 | She said she 'd rather have had some lilac bathsalts , the sort that crumpled to silk in the water . |
| 25 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
| 26 | I said she 'd just see telling them as well you know bu i it be better it 's it 's away fro , away from Newton Abbot . |
| 27 | The me who said she 'd never stay in a hostel again was now on her way to a night shelter . |
| 28 | Until she met the Crowley family she was a lost , lonely and abused teenager who was doing so much damage to herself that social workers said she 'd never see her eighteenth birthday . |
| 29 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 30 | My girlfriend — oh , yes , I 'd had lots of girlfriends , but never one like her — she said she 'd always love me . |