Example sentences of "[pron] i 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 2 | The day you joined up , she came to tell me I 'd driven you to it . ’ |
| 3 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 4 | It were me , me dad , me dad and mother , me I 'd got two I 'd got er one brother and two sisters . |
| 5 | His friend held my other hand and told me I 'd been brave . |
| 6 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 7 | It was like nothing I 'd ever experienced before — so much feeling , so much exquisite joy . |
| 8 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 9 | He played me a record of some Stockhausen , whom I 'd never heard of . ’ |
| 10 | From my point of view it was a complete success — fun , interesting and the chance for me to meet someone whom I 'd admired from afar since I was 14 years old . |
| 11 | Several of my ex-pupils , some of whom I 'd first taught when they were 7 years old , grimaced at me as they carried on preparing their lunch . |
| 12 | The journalist with whom I 'd joined TWW on the same week from sister papers in Cardiff had wickedly gone into another room to make the mischievous call . |
| 13 | Stuart Balmforth , with whom I 'd done part of my National Service in the Canal Zone , was now the co-owner and a director of British Midland . |
| 14 | Perhaps I could tell Norman he was a godson with whom I 'd lost touch when his real mother died ? |
| 15 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 16 | Paradouze was the only person to whom I 'd ever felt close . |
| 17 | Suddenly Graham , whom I 'd known all my life , was different . |
| 18 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 19 | He 's a nicer man than Malcolm — stupid Malcolm whom I 'd hoped to marry before he became besotted with Doreen . |
| 20 | Oh God I can st I can still remember Auntie Edie and her mouth full of rotten teeth , oh dear , whom I 'd never met before |
| 21 | I told them I 'd squared it with you . |
| 22 | My parents used to ignore me when I used to go home and tell them I 'd won a race . |
| 23 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 24 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 25 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 26 | Cos he used to go shooting there and and they went in there and they should n't of done because Michael told them I 'd taken meadows back and he sa , he said when Tony told them , they , they 'd been there shooting he said well they 're , they 're out of bounds ! |
| 27 | But they 're all well I went and I said to them I 'd forgotten my essays , my room number , the lot ! |
| 28 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 29 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 30 | Because er my mother was fair and she must have carried it or something and then I I 'd just started I think a week of two or three weeks and my sister got it and the boys never got it . |