Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i 'd [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly .
2 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 .
3 I used to put on that I 'd accepted it , but I did n't really .
4 Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected .
5 Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine .
6 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 .
7 I always wish now that I 'd met him .
8 And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before .
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