Example sentences of "[subord] i 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want … wanted it all or , in the end , I found I wanted nothing , although I 'd originally thought I could be satisfied with something . ’ |
| 2 | Up until the age of 33 , I managed to push this turmoil to the back of my mind , although I 'd always had trouble with relationships because I was so full of self-doubt , and succeeded in destroying any relationship that seemed to be leading anywhere . |
| 3 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 4 | I would be responsible for sound , second-unit camera , and most of the stills — although I 'd never operated a movie-camera or tape-recorder in my life . |
| 5 | Then , although I 'd never had any morning sickness , I began to feel pain after I 'd eaten . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd told her not to worry and that he was one of the lads , although I 'd never seen him before , and we were just waiting for her to go before we started the party . |
| 7 | And suddenly I realised that there was a whole lot more going on than I 'd even thought of . |
| 8 | After premiering in Amsterdam in 1987 , Cale dropped its piano and pedal steel parts — ‘ the cabaret aspect ’ — because , ‘ the Soviets played it better than I 'd ever imagined , with so much passion . |
| 9 | I felt lower than I 'd ever felt before . |
| 10 | The first GPs of the season brought me more success than I 'd ever dreamed . ’ |
| 11 | Valerie Masters … they and so many others arrived , did their songs with more panache than I 'd ever heard before , and departed . |
| 12 | I was probably more afraid than I 'd ever been in my life but I was too busy to notice it . |
| 13 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 14 | After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it . |
| 15 | Look , I 've no money for a hotel so I 'd better make my own arrangements for tonight . |
| 16 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 17 | Well , I 've a ward round to get through before I can come over to your unit , George , so I 'd better get moving . |
| 18 | We can make fear choices , which lead us to cling to the past — ‘ I hate my job , but I wo n't find anything better , so I 'd better stick to it ’ , ‘ I always eat hamburger and chips on Thursdays ’ , ‘ I 'd like to know Chris better , but I 'm sure s/he wo n't be interested in me ’ — or growth choices , in which we reach for the future — ‘ I hate my job , so I 'll start applying for others , even though it feels scary ’ , ‘ Maybe I 'll try spaghetti bolognese tonight ’ , ‘ What have I got to lose ? |
| 19 | ‘ So I 'd better deal with the problem immediately ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So I 'd better shoot you , had n't I ? ’ |
| 21 | But Maureen was saying hastily , ‘ Liz is n't in today , and I 've got what appears to be a customer , so I 'd better go . |
| 22 | She sighed happily , then went on , ‘ We seem to have a prospective buyer and Liz is making frantic signals to me , so I 'd better go . |
| 23 | The timer on my cooker has just begun to bleep , so I 'd better go and attend to the dinner . |
| 24 | He would n't want to waste his time chasing that story if I 'd already done it , and I can get a story into print more quickly than the British magazines he supplies . |
| 25 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 26 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't be if I 'd just lost twenty million , ’ Plummer said humourlessly . |
| 28 | ‘ The whole thing was a perfectly natural mistake , but , thanks to him , they went on as if I 'd just attempted to rob the Bank of England . |
| 29 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 30 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |