Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 2 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 3 | And , ’ obscurely , ‘ my behaviour ’ , as you call it , might have been very different if I 'd known Hugh was a thing of the past . ’ |
| 4 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 5 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 6 | In fact , everything was much less traumatic and emotional than I 'd expected , probably because I 'm pretty hard on myself anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , and you 'd have been grateful that I 'd gone . |
| 8 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 9 | I felt relieved once I 'd started because at last I felt I was doing something about my life . |
| 10 | They seemed delighted that I 'd said it , and to know just what I meant . |
| 11 | It was n't as dark as I 'd expected . |
| 12 | ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people ! |
| 13 | ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says . |
| 14 | I recently tried resurrecting some former friendships and did n't get any response , except for one who turned up on my doorstep , glad that I 'd written . |
| 15 | Tony more subdued than I 'd remembered him . |
| 16 | It was incredible that I 'd ended up in her kitchen , too , because she was the perfect person for me to cry on — and she , knowing me from way back when , was a phenomenal comfort to me , explaining so much I did n't know about the Jewish way of death , about the absence of hell , about the soul . |
| 17 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
| 18 | With a wry smile , Ellie admitted , ‘ It would n't have been so hard if I 'd known what he was talking about . ’ |
| 19 | It was fine because I 'd moved it , luckily , I 'd |
| 20 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 21 | He 's er he 's saying that er the shifting of the ground 's political but I 'd to remember him that er , th it 's the council that 's doing their job , he 's not doing his job . |
| 22 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 23 | Then , after I 'd made sure that I 'd left no telltale traces , I was off . |
| 24 | After a while , though , I began to feel sure that I 'd spotted a Gharrgoyle — or maybe a different one at different times — wriggling through the crowds behind me . |
| 25 | Embarrassing too , the recognition that my interest in Laura remained less innocent than I 'd persuaded myself . |
| 26 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 27 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 28 | I 'd dithered , and I 'd got tired and I 'd gone off and been |
| 29 | They 're one point eight G L Estate F reg , four thousand , two hundred , that 's A B C D E , five year 's difference , done four thousand , two hundred , two , eight hundred quid , well actually it 's , our cars worth over a grand if I 'd sprayed it up and put it on the market |
| 30 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |