Example sentences of "that [pers pn] 'd " in BNC.

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1 I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences .
2 I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus .
6 It is pure irony that after a climb involving some of the most sustained smooth rock that I 'd ever encountered , the finish involved a traverse of wire cable attached to a telepherique station , a swing down and across metal laddering and a hand-traverse of the spars which guide the telepherique into its housing .
7 Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in .
8 So I kept telling Vivienne and Bernie that I 'd lost the keys to my locker .
9 It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in .
10 Big Lou came out with a story that I 'd been fired — but I resigned . ’
11 I got this notion that I 'd some terrible disease – as if the Con was n't terrible enough – and everybody would catch it off me .
12 I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old .
13 When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 .
14 This was the day when I decided that I 'd had enough .
15 He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already .
16 But I decided to give my countryman a chance , not that I 'd moved four thousand miles to be shown around London by a fellow American , and a hick from the provinces to boot .
17 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 .
18 He thought my parents were pressurising me to dress this way , or that I 'd gone mad .
19 I had a very scientific explanation about periods from my mum , with a warning not to tell my father or younger sister that I 'd started .
20 The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden .
21 Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner .
22 The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond .
23 My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum .
24 Then your Inspector took it into his head that I 'd done it .
25 I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section .
26 I decided at that moment that I 'd had enough . ’
27 Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them .
28 I was flattered that I 'd been chosen , but at the same time pretty scared .
29 I 'd said to Mr Palmer in 1960 after St Andrews that I 'd caddie for him anywhere .
30 Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply .
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