Example sentences of "[adv] she 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only she 'd never met him — had never experienced the exquisite sweetness of being held against his heart — she would n't now be crushed under the weight of this unbearable sorrow . |
| 2 | Perhaps she 'd just imagined it , like she 'd imagined the pallid papery men buried in the walls . |
| 3 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 4 | Still , if he 's gone — perhaps she 'd better come . ’ |
| 5 | But perhaps she 'd never really been there at all . |
| 6 | It had all been a dream ; perhaps she 'd never even left it . |
| 7 | perhaps she 'd actually made these er bread pudding . |
| 8 | His smile was open and friendly , and suddenly it seemed preposterous to be standing here , on a Roman street corner , arguing with a man who had taken her from an existence that she 'd hated to one that was all she 'd ever dreamed of . |
| 9 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 10 | Somehow she 'd already guessed the other woman 's identity . |
| 11 | It was just that somehow she 'd also felt disappointed … |
| 12 | She should have thrown it out years ago but somehow she 'd never had the heart . |
| 13 | Somehow she 'd still hoped against hope that Ace might have come to her after all . |
| 14 | I thought she 'd argue that she might as well go somewhere she 'd always wanted to visit . ’ |
| 15 | Ruth rose too , suddenly held by a despair more absolute than any she 'd yet felt . |
| 16 | Emotion stronger than any she 'd ever previously experienced welled up within her , and overwhelmed her . |
| 17 | He was on the receiving end of a look that was as coldly disdainful as any she 'd ever seen . |
| 18 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 19 | But somehow it stuck to her , a battered meaningless fragment of those far-off days , something that until now she 'd never quite managed to lose . |
| 20 | Ronni was suddenly grateful that just a moment ago she 'd already had this conversation . |
| 21 | It was incredible , and until today she 'd never experienced anything remotely like it . |
| 22 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 23 | Leonora shied a pillow at her sister , her face scarlet as she remembered how she 'd once pleaded with Penry to make love to her . |
| 24 | When she did , she told him how much she loved him — how she 'd always loved him . |
| 25 | Funny how she 'd never noticed it before . |
| 26 | She began to hope that maybe she 'd already been rescued and this was n't Spiderglass at all . |
| 27 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 28 | But then she 'd practically loaded the gun that had shot her down and handed it to him . |
| 29 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 30 | Whatever he was up to , whatever his intentions towards her , at least she 'd just discovered something about her feelings towards him . |