Example sentences of "'d [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd rather been inclined to favour the theory that Fedorov is working for the Hapsburgs . |
| 2 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 3 | I 'd rather taken against this woman — she was frightfully solid and know-it-all and not funny , you know — and to be difficult I asked her how she knew this , thinking that she would quote out of some boring manual or other . |
| 4 | Er , the first thing is I put on the top of my draught that I 'd rather the pupils were n't involved at this stage I 'd rather they were involved in the over view with form tutor . |
| 5 | Something he 'd rather had n't happened . |
| 6 | A sort of chess-game with death I 'd rather unexpectedly won . |
| 7 | I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had . |
| 8 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 9 | I think it was really because Paul felt that everything was going really well with the partnership board , and he 'd been erm putting a lot of work in with people like erm from Scarborough , and John and er other people who are on the board , but he 'd rather been neglecting building up a really good working relationship with N Y T E C. |
| 10 | I 'd rather got the impression that you were coming round to quite enjoying working for me . ’ |
| 11 | I think she 'd rather gone off this Yank . ’ |
| 12 | She 'd rather admired the man . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd rather hoped to enjoy the same conditions myself . ’ |
| 14 | Kate had been so taken up with her own affairs that she 'd rather forgotten Ace 's part in the drama . |
| 15 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 16 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 17 | I 'd rather had the people I can survive with one person , one person down |
| 18 | I 'd rather planned on going to bed tonight aching with the satisfaction of revenge , not laughter . ’ |
| 19 | Well because it 's darkish in colour and I 'd rather promised myself that if I have anything new now it 'll be of a brighter colour . |
| 20 | oh I 'd rather gone out , I think there 's , there 's one of those |
| 21 | She scowled darkly , realising he 'd deftly avoided answering her implicit question . |
| 22 | Even though I 'd eventually been allowed my inhaler and eye ointment in Holloway , it had all been taken off me again . |
| 23 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 24 | This was n't the flawed , haggard Martinho I 'd latterly known but a clean , composed , god-like creature , the perfect Martinho of the peace-time Praça . |
| 25 | But his superiority is short-lived , for the next line shows a recoil against the self : In the penultimate line Shakespeare achieves a fine double effect , the spelling ‘ eye ’ linking up with the ‘ eyes ’ ( his eyes , be it noted ) in the preceding lines , while the heard sense , ‘ more perjur 'd I ’ looks back to ‘ I am perjur 'd most ’ . |
| 26 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
| 27 | I must have made thousands over those university years , much to the annoyance of my own family , as I 'd rarely made the effort for them . |
| 28 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 29 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |
| 30 | Maybe he 'd bitterly regretted the impulse that had led him to marry such a young girl — possibly the only rash decision of his well-ordered life . |