Example sentences of "'d [adv] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me .
2 Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change .
3 I 'd not seen him for six months .
4 She 'd already got herself into all sorts of trouble listening to other people 's opinions , and she was n't going to make that mistake again .
5 Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night .
6 ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course .
7 I 'd never done anything like that before .
8 I 'd never done anything like that before .
9 I 'd never heard anything like that before .
10 I 'd never associated her with any kind of wit , but these were joky and mocking , very amusing letters .
11 She 'd never experienced anything like this in her life before — she 'd never met a man who had made any real , lasting impression on her .
12 He 'd never known anyone for touching things like Lee .
13 Now you said that you 'd actually presented it in another way and were just , and , and had just changed it .
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