Example sentences of "'d just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 2 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 3 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 4 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 5 | His immense desire to have something outside himself that he could look up to and worship expressed itself not merely in that idealistic phase that he 'd just gone through , but in his attitude towards mathematical truth . |
| 6 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 7 | I think you said he 'd just moved into the area recently . |
| 8 | God , I was nearly in an accident last night , that reminds me , coming , I 'd just turned off the Wrexham road , er going along the Paisword one |
| 9 | At in we 'd just turned round the corner and it conked out . |
| 10 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
| 11 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 12 | There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors . |
| 13 | It 'd just grown out that , I knew |
| 14 | Because , now Lyndsey joined it and he , he said like when he was eighteen he knew it all , and he says you were watching men of twenty who 'd just joined at training |
| 15 | I switched on the engine , closed my eyes and … felt like I 'd just stepped onto a corporation bus . |
| 16 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 17 | In deck shoes , casual close-fitting denim Bermudas , and black polo-shirt , his hair tousled as if he 'd just jumped off a boat , he looked very large and male and intimidating . |
| 18 | All the same , now she was older she had to admit that what he 'd done was n't so very terrible ; she 'd just reacted in an over-sensitive manner . |
| 19 | In the first attack , he 'd just popped into a shop in the Lake District — and returned to find the panels of his £52,000 BMW 750i all kicked in . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 21 | They 'd chatted at length about the progression of the public relations arrangements , about the meeting she 'd just had with the video expert , and Salvo had appeared impressed at the amount of hours she was putting in . |
| 22 | Exercising his body slowly and with care in the practice court , Lucien was aware that , despite the cross words he 'd just had with Azmaveth , he was actually content in his new surroundings . |
| 23 | He 'd just got off the train . |
| 24 | You used it again when you 'd just got off the train from Paddington tonight , when you pretended you were waiting for Mrs Downes — ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I 'd just got opposite that poor woman 's house , and I glanced up at it . |
| 26 | She 'd just slipped into it over the years . |
| 27 | " Hey , " somebody shouted , and when I looked back , it was the tenant of the flat I 'd just knocked at . |
| 28 | He always stayed calm , but he had a knack of turning things around so that you thought you were getting your own way when in fact you 'd just agreed with him . |
| 29 | He 'd just spoken to Detective Inspector Balfour in his hole on the Foulness road , but there was n't much news on that front . |
| 30 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |