Example sentences of "i 'd [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I 'd eaten dinner that was it . |
| 2 | Work , sport and social activities ran easily side by side , There was time for them all — after I 'd absorbed father 's time-mentality . |
| 3 | I thought oh , I thought it was like one of your tapes and I 'd pressed record and it had started recording over it . |
| 4 | ‘ If Ken Harris thought I 'd withheld information … ’ |
| 5 | The journalist with whom I 'd joined TWW on the same week from sister papers in Cardiff had wickedly gone into another room to make the mischievous call . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd hoped Katabtic would be kept in . |
| 7 | I 'd gone stone cold but felt boiling hot . |
| 8 | I went out , I had n't even I 'd said hello to him , that was it . |
| 9 | and that 's what makes me evil , that 's why I say I 'd moved heaven and earth for someone who 's nice |
| 10 | I 'd naively thought they could mount some low-profile operation to catch Andy watching his own funeral ; I 'd imagined cops slinking through the undergrowth , whispering into radios , gradually closing in . |
| 11 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 12 | I came across him when I was about 14 or 15 , and although I 'd played Chet Atkins-style fingerpicking before , it had n't occurred to me to use the bottleneck in conjunction with fingerpicking . |
| 13 | If you have been through a divorce , you must have asked yourself , what if I 'd handled things differently ? |
| 14 | I could n't really assess how I 'd handled Ali . |
| 15 | I 'd heard North Shore aficionados reminiscing about the ten-point tube Pottz had caught here back in '82 . |
| 16 | I 'd heard Dad and Eva in the bar analysing the performance as if it were Miles Davis 's farewell appearance . |
| 17 | I 'd heard stories of women being in labour for twelve or fifteen hours with their first child so I was quite pleased . |
| 18 | Well my husband was out o on strike and I 'd erm got two babies , a year and ten months , and I felt that I had to go and get a job and I was desperate so I 'd heard people talking about these things as they did so I thought well I 've got to do something . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd heard Robert and the Russian doctor he went to the Pole with in '89 discussing a short trek of the last 100 miles . |
| 20 | Cos I had it for a month , cos I did n't know whether I was gon na like it , I 'd never been on one before and er I 'd heard Judith say that you could feel claustrophobic , you know , with it over you |
| 21 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd heard rumours , but discounted them . |
| 23 | I had a little Fender lap-steel guitar , and I 'd heard bottleneck players and blues players and I kept trying to play like that and I just could n't figure it out . |
| 24 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd heard scratchings , that was it . |
| 26 | Dad poked his head round the door to see what was going on and to ask if I 'd seen Mum . |
| 27 | ‘ The last time I 'd seen Nelson was in the courtroom in 1964 , ’ Mrs Sisulu said . |
| 28 | I 'm by the window and I 'd seen Pickerage make his enticing little way there just a minute before . |
| 29 | How I wish I 'd seen Shirley Cowling 's article ( Nov '91 ) on ‘ Choosing the first machine ’ eight years ago ! |
| 30 | I knew which one it was — I 'd seen Sally 's list . |