Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i 'd [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 I would , if I 'd got a fast car and I 'd lost my dreams .
2 I 'd blacked my eyebrows till they were like tarmac , I 'd put raspberry-coloured gloss thick on my lips and I 'd done my eyelids in a limey shade of green .
3 Three months after I 'd submitted my profile he sold out to INCUBUS .
4 Bless him , he went away with the promise of a full sitting when I 'd got my face back from the cleaners .
5 I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects .
6 ‘ She was n't in the boardroom because I 'd seen her leave .
7 I was so obsessive about most things that we 'd quickly have got bogged down in details if I 'd had my way .
8 Whether it was simply mere enjoyment or relief that I 'd survived my worst imaginings I do n't know — but it felt good .
9 My encounters with girls were destined always to end in rejection until I 'd left my teens behind me .
10 They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back :
11 CHRISTOPHER : Well , I left school after I 'd done my A levels .
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