Example sentences of "[conj] she 'd just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choosing to turn a blind eye to the unlikely drama that was unfolding a few feet in front of her , she merely expressed her gratitude for the imitation topaz bangle that she 'd just unwrapped , before turning on her heels and heading downstairs to catch the special seasonal episode of Crossroads . |
| 2 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 3 | Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left . |
| 4 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 5 | In the end I went to the police and found that she 'd just reported that he was missing . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why ? ’ she demanded , finally deciding that she 'd just been insulted . |
| 7 | And she 'd just had an idea , one which would get them all moving . |
| 8 | She had a seriously ill patient to contend with and she 'd just had a telephone message to say that Brückner 's wife wanted to come up and visit him . |
| 9 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 10 | And she 'd just totally forgotten ! |
| 11 | Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office . |
| 12 | And she 'd just arrived . |
| 13 | And she 'd just turned eighteen . |
| 14 | We all sat round the van , the caravan about quarter to four and she 'd just got one , she 'd got one of her friends and they got theirs about quarter to four . |
| 15 | Well I 'm gla glad she 's getting something done about it now cos you and she 'd just been left , sh er , had n't been persuaded she 'd have just let it go on and on and on would n't |
| 16 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 17 | Then drew back quickly , as if she 'd just been burned . |
| 18 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 19 | She asked , ‘ What was that ? ’ as if she 'd just failed to catch some remark that Luke had made . |
| 20 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 21 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 22 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
| 23 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 24 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 25 | Marc made her feel as if she 'd just had a battle with a steamroller — but she was mildly pleased with herself . |
| 26 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 27 | She said it was all just paper talk because she 'd just had a gorgeous postcard from Mark but it gets to them , I can tell you . ’ |
| 28 | William suggested , because she 'd just bought Mary Ann Evans 's and was always talking about the trouble she was having finding good staff . |
| 29 | It was because she 'd just started to sell them at the shop . |
| 30 | whether she 'd just had the baby , I do n't know her surname . |