Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I 'd broken the rule by moving both point cams , so no amount of re-reading them would position my pattern correctly . |
| 2 | I found that out when I 'd pressed the bell and no one came . |
| 3 | I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it . |
| 4 | I 'd observed the varieties of charm . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought it might have something to do with the fact that when it emerged that I 'd received the letter , Ivy Cook would become persona non grata in the Miletti family . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd hoped the shock would , at the very least , cause her to misdirect the stream and wet her shoes . |
| 7 | After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds . |
| 8 | I fingered the lump on my head where I 'd struck the drainpipe . |
| 9 | I 'd missed the World Cup draw on TV to boot . |
| 10 | By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds . |
| 11 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 12 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 13 | I 'd loved the New York Dolls . |
| 14 | go down and meet the bus so we 're sat there now ten past eleven and I thought I hope we have n't missed it now and she 's walked up , she 's standing out the door cos I 'd locked the door . |
| 15 | Like everyone else , I 'd played the ‘ It wo n't happen to me , but if it does … ’ game , and had envisaged , in the case of breast cancer , dying intact , yet there I was , rushing round the taverna looking for a scalpel . |
| 16 | I 'd heard the voice of an angel — and when a meeting was eventually arranged between David and myself , through NEMS ' who were handling both of us at the time , I expected a very pimply youth to be standing there . |
| 17 | I 'd heard the door spring open and the stairs groan as she made good her escape . |
| 18 | ‘ Overwhelmingly , doing the singles , the review was written before I 'd heard the record . |
| 19 | He called me a usurer , which was the first time I 'd heard the word , paid me back £1.20 after four weeks , paraded at weekends in his new shirt , and we were friends thereafter . |
| 20 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 21 | I 'd heard the name , who has not ? |
| 22 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 23 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 24 | Connie Fraser was n't really any of my business , but I 'd liked the way she was taking this whole bit . |
| 25 | I 'd seen the Himalayas in the autumn , so I was able to imagine them . |
| 26 | I 'd seen the invitation pinned up prominently by Dee-Dee in the office : most of the racing world , it seemed , would be there to applaud . |
| 27 | I 'd seen the play — some touring company did it — they 'd made it into SF , all in space , and Oedipus was a two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox character trying to kiss his mother with one of his faces and weep sorrowful tears with the other . |
| 28 | I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother . |
| 29 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 30 | I was beginning to get scared even before I 'd seen the film . |