Example sentences of "[conj] i 'd [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I 'd thought of getting a teaching qualification — maybe starting my own commercial language school . ’ |
| 2 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 3 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 4 | That was the one that I 'd heard about . |
| 5 | Then a film that I 'd made in India opened , and the producer of the film gave me a list of agents ' names , and said , ‘ You are going to be a star . |
| 6 | So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office . |
| 7 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , well erm , see I advertised it all round cafe as well that I 'd sent for it as well . |
| 9 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 10 | I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about . |
| 11 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 12 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 13 | What it turned out to be was a lump of clay that I 'd moulded into what looked like a piece of black and wrapped up in silver paper just fooling about and they really freaked out and they kicked me out and had the police involved and everything . |
| 14 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 15 | Actually , I chew on a piece of mozzarella and merely wish that I 'd thought of bringing a silver pistol , because , let's face it , Dudley Moore played Patch the Elf in the 40-million-dollar Santa Claus — The Movie which unlike say Ishtar or Hudson Hawk , is consistently unbearable for every single one of its sad seconds . |
| 16 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
| 17 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 18 | So that black top that sweatshirt top that I 'd got for Lee , it was seventeen ninety nine , you got that for thirteen pounds , forty five erm thirty two pound off . |
| 19 | ‘ It meant that I 'd got through all my policies … [ they ] all had a little bit of fun and expression and there was no change in policy . |
| 20 | No , who was that I 'd got ta a statement about then ? |
| 21 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |
| 22 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 23 | erm Yes it 's quite interesting I mean the if you go and look at the computerised facility that I 'd found about communications training , there are something like three hundred and ninety two sources of training in Scotland . |
| 24 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 25 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 26 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 27 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 28 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 29 | The house was perfect — well , it would have been perfect ; it needed a complete overhaul , of course , redecorating from top to bottom , and then I 'd thought of building some guest-houses , and it seemed a little silly to have a villa with perfect anchorage unless I used it , so I 'd thought of a yacht … |
| 30 | Once I 'd broken into this solicitor 's and all there was there was this big safe , y'know the type I mean , a big square box that was on this big slab of polished wood . |