Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd buzzed off one , but the rest I found hard to remember . |
| 2 | We were recording in a mobile unit in this street , because I 'd broken my leg . |
| 3 | Of course , I 'd broken the rule by moving both point cams , so no amount of re-reading them would position my pattern correctly . |
| 4 | I 'd broken my heel the week before whilst soloing at Pex Hill ! |
| 5 | After I 'd finished the poem I felt triumphant that I 'd broken my fear-silence . |
| 6 | Once I 'd broken into this solicitor 's and all there was there was this big safe , y'know the type I mean , a big square box that was on this big slab of polished wood . |
| 7 | Within days , for instance , I 'd broken up with my girlfriend , because things came to the surface that I had been neatly burying away for years . |
| 8 | She suggested in that shoddy little newspaper interview that I 'd broken up her marriage … but let's not talk of it , Gregory , please . |
| 9 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 10 | I thought I 'd broken my leg . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a trickle of a stream and I did not say I 'd broken every bone , just hurt my leg . |
| 12 | The fact that it would have been tricky to die on a hill with more people around than at a Harrods sale , unless I 'd packed a gun and some razor blades , was irrelevant . |
| 13 | It must have been around two-forty-five by the time I 'd packed up my stuff . |
| 14 | I 'd pretended to lose my temper and he spotted it . ’ |
| 15 | It was incredible that I 'd ended up in her kitchen , too , because she was the perfect person for me to cry on — and she , knowing me from way back when , was a phenomenal comfort to me , explaining so much I did n't know about the Jewish way of death , about the absence of hell , about the soul . |
| 16 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , champignons , ’ I replied , thinking that he sounded as old as Noah and immediately I 'd named him Grandad . |
| 18 | Several people were embarking also into the car behind dining car , into the car which comprised three bedrooms , a bar , a large lounge area and an upstairs glass-domed observation deck , the whole lot known , I 'd discovered , a the dome car . |
| 19 | By the end of that first evening I 'd discovered that , however much of a rebel your younger sister might be , you were made of tougher , truer steel . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But the truth is , there was never anything between us — not after I 'd discovered she cared more for her mirror than for anything or anyone else . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ For the sake of her memory I would n't have hesitated to bring you crashing down from that pedestal if I 'd discovered anything damning about you . ’ |
| 22 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 23 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
| 24 | ‘ I just wish I 'd kept my flies fastened that day , ’ he said . |
| 25 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 26 | But you ca n't imagine how many times I 've thought , ‘ If I 'd kept him , he might have lived . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd kept my involvement with FAKOUM and FAKINTIL and in particular my personal association with Osvaldo and Martinho to myself , but he smelled a rat . |
| 28 | But I 'd have gone nowhere if I 'd kept playing . |
| 29 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 30 | It 'd have been better if I 'd kept them two . |