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

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1 The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden .
2 I was afraid , for a moment , that I 'd lost you . ’
3 After I 'd finished the poem I felt triumphant that I 'd broken my fear-silence .
4 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 .
5 Then your Inspector took it into his head that I 'd done it .
6 I said , " Yes " , and I plugged it that I 'd done it while I 'd had Louisa and that 's what I think went in my favour in a way .
7 When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness .
8 I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one .
9 I told Spruce a bit about Amy and Hereward 's marriage and I did mention that I 'd seen her here on Friday night and Saturday morning .
10 I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich .
11 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 .
12 I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly .
13 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 .
14 I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’
15 I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics .
16 Whether it was simply mere enjoyment or relief that I 'd survived my worst imaginings I do n't know — but it felt good .
17 I suddenly realised that there were all these great black players around in Louisiana , and that I 'd missed them completely !
18 I always wish now that I 'd met him .
19 They seemed delighted that I 'd said it , and to know just what I meant .
20 Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done .
21 I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich .
22 When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple .
23 The first few hundred hours of thought made me regret my bet ; but the second couple of thousand convinced me that I 'd played it right .
24 I used to put on that I 'd accepted it , but I did n't really .
25 To the same guy that I 'd bought it for twe er for twenty off .
26 and thought that I 'd bought it .
27 Well to me it was a first time and being an unmarried man that I 'd earned anything like it .
28 ‘ It thought that I 'd sold its mate .
29 Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week .
30 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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