Example sentences of "i 'd [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 32 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 33 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 34 | Two taken outside a flat I 'd rented for her . ’ |
| 35 | You could no longer do the things I 'd taken for granted , like making a cup of tea and sitting down for a gossip when I came in from college . |
| 36 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 37 | We thought he 'd burst in and take away everything we had — everything I 'd worked for so long and so hard , and he did n't deserve any of it . |
| 38 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 39 | I felt that everything I 'd worked for had gone down the drain . |
| 40 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 41 | So that black top that sweatshirt top that I 'd got for Lee , it was seventeen ninety nine , you got that for thirteen pounds , forty five erm thirty two pound off . |
| 42 | The note I 'd left for Tremayne , ‘ GONE OUT WITH HARRY , BACK FOR GRUB was still pinned to the corkboard . |
| 43 | jostling for bits of bread I 'd left for them . |
| 44 | It was a compulsion I 'd starved for , and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever . |
| 45 | He was on the payroll as an inspiration generator for ‘ Boot ’ — a canine character I 'd invented for my cartoon strip , The Perishers . |
| 46 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 47 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 48 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 49 | I had one of the best nights I 'd had for ages , and slept through the rest of the ebb and the whole of the flood . |
| 50 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 51 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 52 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 53 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 54 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 55 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |