Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whenever I 'd played their records I 'd be dancing around me room , and to dance onstage to the music you like is just f—ing awesome . |
| 2 | He answered at once , ‘ Whenever I 'd found the hole in the floor . |
| 3 | Apparently , whenever she 'd gone close to this man he 'd shooed her away , recoiling from her and muttering , ‘ Pork , pork , pork , VD , VD , white woman , white woman . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ God , ’ her husband said , whenever she 'd brought him home before her father died , ‘ what a bloody awful climate … ’ |
| 5 | He always sort of backpedalled whenever he 'd exposed his feelings . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone who asked how I 'd done the lighting , I told them . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 9 | I could n't really assess how I 'd handled Ali . |
| 10 | Wanted to do an article on how I 'd built the company from nothing . |
| 11 | I thought of how I 'd stood |
| 12 | This is not how I 'd imagined it , I thought ruefully . |
| 13 | I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! " |
| 14 | I thought about how I 'd walked around all those weeks and what I 'd felt about him and the crazy things I had found myself believing . |
| 15 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 16 | I do n't know how I 'd dared drive down them narrow roads |
| 17 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 18 | That was how I 'd got used to it , at any rate , ’ |
| 19 | I did n't get difficult when I drank but I often could n't remember where I 'd been or what I 'd done or even how I 'd got back home . |
| 20 | I thought it a bit off that she 'd never asked how I 'd got her pendant back . |
| 21 | After murmuring words of consolation , I asked her how she 'd felt when her husband gave up being a butcher and devoted his life to carving the gods . |
| 22 | In the old days he would have been amused and asked her how she 'd done it . |
| 23 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 24 | I bumped into him and told him I was sorry to hear about his sister , which I was , despite how she 'd treated us . |
| 25 | How she 'd discovered where he was unloading his balls was academic . |
| 26 | She flushed now , remembering how she 'd realised last night that he must have returned without her hearing . |
| 27 | I could n't see her face very clearly now , but could sense how she 'd withdrawn from me . |
| 28 | Meredith felt the memory freeze her bones , remembering how she 'd comforted her paralysed grandmother during the long wait for the ambulance , knowing this was her third heart attack . |
| 29 | None had guessed the desolation she 'd experienced or how she 'd built a protective screen around her emotions , determined that neither tears nor anger would betray her inner pain . |
| 30 | As he poured the tea , Peter wondered if she 'd told James about how she 'd made a fool of him ; perhaps they had laughed at him together . |