Example sentences of "i 'd [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd played at a club in Soho , even backed a few rock bands Lloyd had claimed to manage , and he 'd run a string of female mud wrestlers , mainly in the clip joint next door .
2 But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence .
3 You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down .
4 I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time .
5 To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road .
6 Er is I 'd looked at the using their machine build which I 've built in ,
7 A Canadian reviewer said they looked like people I 'd found at a bus-stop , which I was very flattered by . ’
8 I 'd arrived at the Greenwood Theatre too late to hear Jonathan Ross get off his intro-line about Fashanu ‘ scoring ’ at the weekend .
9 He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time .
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