Example sentences of "[noun sg] i 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 2 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 3 | ‘ I was looking for a hiding place for some stupid necklace I 'd bought , and the bureau was the nearest thing to hand ! ’ |
| 4 | It was a trick I 'd learned never to do without a crash helmet . |
| 5 | The proof of the pudding was in the eating , and in my case I 'd got the ingredients wrong . |
| 6 | But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers . |
| 7 | I wanted to find out why you were so keen on the espionage angle-just in case I 'd missed something . ’ |
| 8 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 9 | ‘ In that case I 'd better come with you , ’ Woodruffe said . |
| 10 | As he ducks he has Des diving for his legs and me closing in , and this is the moment we all discover the benefits of my upbringing because like a promising cadet I 'd left the pistol 's safety on . |
| 11 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 12 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |
| 13 | Heasked me about how the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme was going and what level I 'd reached |
| 14 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 15 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 16 | I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know . |
| 17 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 18 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 19 | Six years ago the only computer I 'd used was some horrid games machine a girlfriend had once become obsessed with . |
| 20 | The second man fitted the description I 'd heard of her husband . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course I 'd had newspapers , but I was n't able to feel inside the atmosphere outside . |
| 22 | Of course I 'd seen pictures and I 've always wanted a guitar like that . |
| 23 | But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like . |
| 24 | And as time went on course I 'd got no experience of house cleaning boots and managing , or anything like that ! |
| 25 | Anyway , I had an early lunch and I went out , but of course I 'd forgotten |
| 26 | I went upstairs , showered and changed out of riding clothes into the more comfortable jeans and shirt I 'd worn the day before and pulled on sneakers and the red sweater for warmth . |
| 27 | ‘ It was the first bit of luck I 'd had since I first set eyes on you . |
| 28 | ‘ And what his idea was , in a way I suppose , was just to see the position which I had to get the horse into before he had the job with the mare ; and he wondered how the job was done with the harness I 'd got on . |
| 29 | Then I took off my little gold earrings and felt in the folds of my dress for all the money I 'd saved or stolen from my brother 's pockets over the years , and placed both the money and earrings in the palm of her hand , forcing her fingers shut around them . |
| 30 | With the money I 'd saved I went over to France , going straight to where she was staying in Tours . |