Example sentences of "[pron] she 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chauffeur , someone she 'd never seen before , brought the car to the front door . |
| 2 | As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before . |
| 3 | I thought you were her lover , someone she 'd never told me about , and I was just knocked back by all the emotions I felt . |
| 4 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 5 | The mirror was veined with gold and misted with the scented steam of the bath from which she 'd just emerged . |
| 6 | Suppressing a sigh , she surveyed the map of Copenhagen with which she 'd already armed herself before leaving England , refreshing her memory as to the location of the street where Suzie 's presence had last been authenticated . |
| 7 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 8 | If she did n't know any better , she would have said she 'd had too much to drink , but apart from that first glass of punch , which she 'd never finished , and then Luke 's celebratory champagne , she had n't touched alcohol all evening . |
| 9 | But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph . |
| 10 | But he had gone out of the front door , banging it , leaving his shoes on the table which she 'd always believed was bad luck . |
| 11 | She turned the volume down instead of up and went to the door , which she 'd dutifully bolted and chained . |
| 12 | The rage burned a week , after which she fell totally silent for three days ; a silence broken by a grief like nothing she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 13 | It was like nothing she 'd ever experienced before : a sensuous hedonistic time of utter physical pleasure . |
| 14 | The family called him when Clare started to complain of chest pains in the late afternoon but he did n't come out ; told them she 'd just strained something ; rest and painkillers . |
| 15 | She 'd no one left to fight with , and Fred , on whom she 'd always called down curses , turned into a sainted memory . |
| 16 | Just being in the arms of this unique person , whom SHe 'd never been absolutely sure SHe could hook , effectively wiped the unpleasant memory from hir mind for the night . |
| 17 | A head like none she 'd ever seen before bobbed out of the waves , whiskered and grinning and as big as her whole body . |
| 18 | Everything she 'd ever wanted laid temptingly before her — only she had looked behind the scenes and knew the display was a hollow sham . |
| 19 | It was the unsettling effect he had on her , making her question everything she 'd always taken for granted . |
| 20 | It was n't something she 'd consciously considered before , just buried the memory along with all the others , but , thinking about it now , she knew he was right . |
| 21 | So serene , in fact , that after we 'd had a meal at the bungalow and a few drinks my mother did something she 'd never done before . |
| 22 | She bought a pine table from a junk shop and slowly sandpapered it down in the garden , and then sealed it , something she 'd never done before , never even thought of doing before . |
| 23 | She knew about anal sex , but it was something she 'd never been asked to do . |
| 24 | It was something she 'd never done before , or dreamt of doing . |
| 25 | She 'd fought the sensation as long as she could and then she 'd done something she 'd never done before , she 'd deliberately looked into the sea of faces , looked unerringly to the rear of the crowded room … |
| 26 | She could n't take any man seriously — or at least not one she 'd yet met . |
| 27 | It had been a glimpse of Gentle , not so unlike the one she 'd just had , that had propelled her into her near-suicidal affair with him . |
| 28 | Her surviving spouse , the one she 'd obviously done everything to make sure he did n't get a penny . |
| 29 | She said it was the best one she 'd ever done . |
| 30 | How could she tell him she 'd never used one before ? |