Example sentences of "[pron] 'd just [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 2 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 3 | 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 … . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 6 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
| 7 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
| 8 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd just got out of bed — I was half asleep , ’ she tried , without much conviction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My head shook as though I 'd just knocked back some hundred-proof whisky . |
| 12 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | And I and I run to the door and you 'd just drove off . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | She 'd just gone down there to look for any good-natured sucker . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | she 'd gone out , she 'd just slipped out with Alice for something |
| 21 | She 'd just got in , and her husband . |
| 22 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 23 | ‘ And she 'll have the South Sussex team manager stoned to death at dawn with vegetarian Scotch eggs if they do n't win , ’ murmured Bas Baddingham who 'd just rolled up and was kissing Daisy . |
| 24 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 25 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 26 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 27 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 28 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 29 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 30 | But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! — |