Example sentences of "'d just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 2 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 3 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 4 | But then we 'd just eaten Mars Bars with everything else . |
| 5 | You 'd just eaten |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 8 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyone would think you 'd just received a death sentence . |
| 10 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 11 | I did n't know he 'd just shot Mr. Banks . ’ |
| 12 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 13 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 14 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 15 | Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office . |
| 16 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 17 | ( And in the alleyway behind The Gilded Cage , the three teenagers crouched high amidst the rubbish and looked down on the body of the middle-aged woman that they 'd just uncovered . |
| 18 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 19 | Yeah , well tell him you 'll put him in his diary , I I would have thought if you 'd just sent him the notes to each meeting he would come if he would , if he could , and if he ca n't , he ca n't . |
| 20 | The family called him when Clare started to complain of chest pains in the late afternoon but he did n't come out ; told them she 'd just strained something ; rest and painkillers . |
| 21 | They 'd just survived a crash and had over-reacted . |
| 22 | He 'd just attended a pottery class at the Guild Hall in Gloucester and as usual , went to get the bus home . |
| 23 | Ah no he was , he , he would n't sit on his chair cos he 'd just called me an arsehole and I goes oh sit down Greg ! |
| 24 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 25 | The artist had fussed around while the thing was being loaded on my ship , babbling about how important it was and how delicate it was and so on , until I 'd just stopped listening . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
| 27 | If you sat with a girl in rows A to F , you 'd just met . |
| 28 | I 'd just met this medium — how could she have known this ? ’ |
| 29 | He said he 'd just met Mr Datchery . |
| 30 | Only another one thousand and ninety four days , twenty three hours and — ‘ So , what brings you here ? ’ asked Pete , like they 'd just met socially . |