Example sentences of "i 'd " in BNC.

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1 And I was scouting around vaguely aware that , in fact , I 'd actually located it .
2 i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 .
3 I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who …
4 Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better .
5 Well , I 'd thought a lot about the part .
6 George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different .
7 I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen .
8 So after four years I thought I 'd survived .
9 Tony more subdued than I 'd remembered him .
10 And then , just after I 'd fallen asleep , as I thought , there was the damned organ moaning away and it was 6 a.m. again .
11 What people objected to in the end was not God , as I 'd thought , but the suburban house in the background and the garden out of House and Garden .
12 People said I 'd gone off my head .
13 I 'd got sandwiches and some gin .
14 What else would you expect after the rotten day I 'd had ?
15 I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone .
16 Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate .
17 We are , after all , allowed only one life in this world and I 'm glad I 'd decided not to let mine just drift away .
18 ‘ Ah well , in that case , I 'd better let you know that I 've asked Paul Spence to do some of the revision classes for your part of the course . ’
19 The job paid quite well and I could perhaps at that stage have afforded somewhere slightly better to live , but I 'd got used to my new home and I was still keen to try and build up some savings again .
20 If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that .
21 When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern .
22 I 'd never done anything like that before .
23 I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences .
24 No , I 'd never been given that option .
25 After I 'd checked to make sure that the back of the van was locked , I jumped up into the driver 's seat and rammed the key into the ignition .
26 I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it .
27 I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it .
28 ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around !
29 I 'd had enough .
30 Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to .
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