Example sentences of "i 'd just [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 2 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 4 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 5 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 6 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 7 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 8 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 9 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 10 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |