Example sentences of "'d just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'd just tasted Mrs Venables ' cake and was cutting into Mrs Feather 's . |
| 2 | Jack , still kneeling beside Bunty and holding her hand to his cheek , said , ‘ She 'd just left … |
| 3 | He 'd just begun . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 6 | Obvious cracks soared to the left and right , reminiscent of Fairhead in Antrim , but I craved subtlety after the brutal corner we 'd just climbed . |
| 7 | This was the case with Marjorie , who 'd just accepted voluntary retirement after 20 years in her office . |
| 8 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
| 9 | ‘ They said I 'd just got 50-60 years wear out of the knee in 15 years . ’ |
| 10 | If you sat with a girl in rows A to F , you 'd just met . |
| 11 | At the time he 'd just started City Lights , a new shop in Covent Garden . |
| 12 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 13 | He 'd just sold his jukebox so we had the back seat piled up with records from it . |
| 14 | At that point I 'd just left St Martin 's . |
| 15 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 16 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 17 | Patrick explained it should be stiff enough in the first place in order to stay up , achieved with the help of a product like the one he 'd just used . |
| 18 | ‘ When I bought this hat , I 'd just had a horrible haircut so it covered up the mistake nicely . ’ |
| 19 | When I was 12 , my great hero was Van Cliburn because he 'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition , so he was invited over and played on my spinet . ’ |
| 20 | Yet it 's a theory without logic : if you 'd just had an Austin Utterly Dependable break down and fall to bits , would you really want another one ? |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd just had some done for our engagement . |
| 22 | Penelope Huntley let go of it anxiously and said no , that it was perfectly fine , she 'd just been cold outside . |
| 23 | He 'd just had a stroke |
| 24 | The mirror was veined with gold and misted with the scented steam of the bath from which she 'd just emerged . |
| 25 | He 'd just remembered . |
| 26 | Perhaps she 'd just imagined it , like she 'd imagined the pallid papery men buried in the walls . |
| 27 | Then a few days later , the other girl , Sally , came dancing across the playground and said she 'd just got hers back . |
| 28 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 29 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 30 | Along the top of the ridge near the ski-lift station where they 'd just been assembled and accoutred , forty of fifty unwilling looking soldiers were strung out in a line attempting to obey orders and words of command from Non-Commissioned Officers who had sensibly omitted to incommode themselves with skis . |