Example sentences of "[vb base] i 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’ |
| 2 | I mean I 'd had a sort of cry I suppose , but at the actual time I was glad I had a daughter [ after two sons ] . |
| 3 | I mean I 'd forgotten all about him but I can remember |
| 4 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 5 | Yes , I mean I 'd no idea who Carol was , I just bumped into her . |
| 6 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 7 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 8 | Well I mean I 'd bought stuff they 'd all share . |
| 9 | yeah , yeah I mean I 'd thought about it for ours |
| 10 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 11 | but I , I 'd never get them done , and I mean I 'd fed Matthew and I shouted down and I said look you 'll have to come and get him dressed cos I 've got dinners to put up yet |
| 12 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 13 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 14 | And hell , I thought ; I had been tired ; I was tired still , and I would phone that evening — definitely — and say I 'd fallen asleep , and nobody would be too bothered , and after all a chap could only cope with so much sorrow-saying in one day … of course I 'd phone . |
| 15 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 16 | and that 's what makes me evil , that 's why I say I 'd moved heaven and earth for someone who 's nice |
| 17 | I snuffed Armstrong 's engine and dug out the OS map I 'd bought . |
| 18 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 19 | It swam straight into my chest and bowled me over , thank God it swam on but the adrenalin was flowing so all I could think about was what sort of picture I 'd got . |
| 20 | Anyway look I 'd better go . |
| 21 | Like I 'd betrayed my mum . |
| 22 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 23 | But I remember I 'd got a box on my mantlepiece erm not only was I using the pessaries but I was also taking these when the period was due . |
| 24 | ROS : You know I 'd no idea — |
| 25 | I did have c a hysterectomy but er because there was a l malignant growth , so whether in you know I 'd done anything all those years and yet it did n't affect , you know it makes you wonder does n't it ? |
| 26 | Several boys went to the fi to the fitting shop you see but the I 'd started I claimed to have started I mean it 's I mean there 's no credit to me but at least I was the first You know I 'd really started the thing you know . |
| 27 | You know I 'd been |
| 28 | I know I 'd had to smash the door , he had to smash the door open with a spade , the lock for me , cos , he , he , he could n't get , he tried er taking that panel out at the bottom and he could n't get it out and I did n't really want him to smash the double glazed glass , in fact it , that would of been very difficult |
| 29 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 30 | You know I 'd never really valued the the erm the truth in that term , straight heads do definitely think very differently . |