Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] 'd just " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 2 | Which one was the real Luke Calder : the hard , tough businessman who would stop at nothing and spare no one to get what he wanted , or that tender stranger she 'd just had a glimpse of ? |
| 3 | somebody came to settle up bang and he was playing thinking he 'd just been wounded and in fact he 'd been shot and killed , poor chap |
| 4 | ‘ This ? ’ said Marco , glancing at the tape he 'd just slotted . |
| 5 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 6 | ‘ How do you make a karaso ? ’ said Kalchu , repeating the question I 'd just asked him . |
| 7 | At that point I 'd just left St Martin 's . |
| 8 | They 'd chatted at length about the progression of the public relations arrangements , about the meeting she 'd just had with the video expert , and Salvo had appeared impressed at the amount of hours she was putting in . |
| 9 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I see , ’ said April , laying aside the sock she 'd just finished darning . |
| 11 | " Hey , " somebody shouted , and when I looked back , it was the tenant of the flat I 'd just knocked at . |
| 12 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 13 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |
| 14 | In the past I 'd just resented how long he spent in the office . |
| 15 | The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left . |
| 16 | I leaned back in my chair and took a slug to go with the belt I 'd just had . |
| 17 | She hated to think of the sight she 'd just presented , sprawling inelegantly , stark naked on the bed … |
| 18 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 19 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
| 20 | I 'd come round the next lap and see the black line I 'd just laid . |
| 21 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 22 | Obvious cracks soared to the left and right , reminiscent of Fairhead in Antrim , but I craved subtlety after the brutal corner we 'd just climbed . |
| 23 | How could he possibly look at her like that after the beauty they 'd just shared together ? |
| 24 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
| 25 | He drank , and then began to think how he could use the information he 'd just been given . |
| 26 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 27 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 28 | There was something disturbing about the way he 'd just — well , just left — without saying anything . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's got the vote now — he 's out of our jurisdiction , ’ Otley said eating a custard tart I 'd Just bought . |