Example sentences of "[v-ing] that i 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 2 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
| 3 | but talking estimating the next one is that the one that we 'd originally called Talking Print Buying that I 'd got |
| 4 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 5 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 6 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 7 | Referring to complaining neighbours the Hanleys she said : ‘ I just do n't know how they can sleep at night next door because I could n't , knowing that I 'd done that to someone . ’ |
| 8 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 9 | I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream . |
| 10 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 11 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 12 | Afterwards , I crawled backstage to visit Michael Crawford , forgetting that I 'd been wearing Clinique 's face-bronzer for that glowing , outdoor , tanned look we all know and simulate . |