Example sentences of "that i 'd [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To anyone who was claiming unemployment benefit or social security , which I do n't , I would imply that I 'd registered as ‘ outdoor clerical ’ or similar , and was n't it a disgrace they could n't find me a job ? |
| 2 | I had a bath , then had to wait to see this officer in charge , and because they read on my notes that I 'd barricaded , I was put on this wing like C1 . |
| 3 | The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden . |
| 4 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 5 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 6 | So I kept telling Vivienne and Bernie that I 'd lost the keys to my locker . |
| 7 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 8 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 9 | It was inconceivable that I 'd lost the bag forever . |
| 10 | But then you picked me up , and you made me your mission — and in spite of everything that I 'd lost , I gained something that I 'd never had before . |
| 11 | I must also admit that I 'd lost faith at this goal ! |
| 12 | I was afraid , for a moment , that I 'd lost you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I used to think , sometimes , that I 'd built a house for strangers to live in . |
| 14 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 15 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 16 | After I 'd finished the poem I felt triumphant that I 'd broken my fear-silence . |
| 17 | She suggested in that shoddy little newspaper interview that I 'd broken up her marriage … but let's not talk of it , Gregory , please . |
| 18 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 19 | Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine . |
| 20 | I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it . |
| 21 | Then your Inspector took it into his head that I 'd done it . |
| 22 | But that I 'd done before . |
| 23 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 24 | I said , " Yes " , and I plugged it that I 'd done it while I 'd had Louisa and that 's what I think went in my favour in a way . |
| 25 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 29 | But then all the different images of trees that I 'd seen — textures of bark , shades of green , angles at which the branches protruded — merged in my mind into one . |
| 30 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |