Example sentences of "i 'd [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 2 | This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements . |
| 3 | Lineker was disappointed and said : ‘ The funny thing is , against Sweden was the best I 'd felt in the whole tournament . ’ |
| 4 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 5 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 6 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |
| 7 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 8 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 9 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 10 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 11 | by the time I 'd got to the next one |
| 12 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |