Example sentences of "[pron] 'd just [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
2 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
3 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
4 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
5 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
6 | In the past I 'd just resented how long he spent in the office . |
7 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
8 | Well I 'd just got there , it was just between quarter past and ten past and twelve were there . |
9 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
10 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
11 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
12 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
13 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
14 | I 'd just got far enough to notice |
15 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
16 | ‘ I 'd just got out of bed — I was half asleep , ’ she tried , without much conviction . |
17 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
18 | My head shook as though I 'd just knocked back some hundred-proof whisky . |
19 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
20 | But , with everything exploding about me , I still had n't got myself back together when the message came from your hotel to say you 'd just checked in . ’ |
21 | And I and I run to the door and you 'd just drove off . |
22 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
23 | She 'd just gone down there to look for any good-natured sucker . |
24 | That night in bed , not able to sleep , she remembered she 'd once knocked on Miss Malabedeely 's door and when Miss Malabedeely had n't answered she 'd just gone in . |
25 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
26 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | she 'd gone out , she 'd just slipped out with Alice for something |
29 | She 'd just got in , and her husband . |
30 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |