Example sentences of "[verb] i 'd [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | He did n't think I 'd go back . |
2 | Do you think I 'd pass up an adventure like that ? ’ |
3 | ‘ You did n't think I 'd find out ! ’ she had retorted . |
4 | Just before he reached it , I used the last two shots on my film , though at that distance I did n't think I 'd pick up much . |
5 | You do n't seriously think I 'd drive around knowing that my insurance was out of date ? |
6 | And suggesting I 'd creep out and send a postcard to some , well , some girlfriend or another ! ’ |
7 | I suppose if you 'd asked me before all this happened , I 'd have said I 'd give in , but I was so angry . |
8 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
9 | ‘ Actually , I should n't be telling you yet , but as your wife came to the station saying how worried you were I thought I 'd call in and tell you . |
10 | My mother always reckoned I 'd end up either in prison or in parliament . ’ |
11 | I reckoned I 'd come back midday and have a look over everything , but I do n't think there 'll be anything missing . |
12 | But I put out the flags — let them see I 'd come back . |
13 | So I figured I 'd put up the five g's , get my name in the papers , maybe ease off the pressure a little . |
14 | We were on the top flat , so I could n't get out to play ; my Ma was feared I 'd fall down the stone stairs and break my neck . |
15 | Well we had er , we took out all the gear for that , so I knew a lot , being a crane driver I 'd know what gear I wanted but a lot of these stevedores what are on there now , they were lorry drivers and they ai n't got a clue what they do , so there part of my job meant I 'd go round and give advice . |
16 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
17 | I knew I 'd give in under whatever duresses Goreng had up his sleeve for me , so what was the point of resisting ? |
18 | You knew I 'd move in with you — perhaps you already felt our child kick inside your belly — ; you saw us wave it off to school . |
19 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up working for a bossy woman . ’ |
20 | I thought I 'd end up feeling frustrated by you staying on your moralistic high horse without ever offering any concrete political proposals . |
21 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up outside the ground propositioning people , ’ he said . |
22 | ‘ I thought I 'd drop round to see Irena after work , ’ she said . |
23 | Simone flushed and said quickly , ‘ I thought I 'd drop by to visit . |
24 | ‘ Well , I happened to be in the UK , ’ he said briskly , ‘ so I thought I 'd drop by and see how you were doing . |
25 | I thought I 'd walk down to the Club and see you and Antony there , Daddy , but there were so many people , I could hardly move . |
26 | Well I just thought I 'd go over now and I might as well go down the shop when |
27 | I dreaded seeing him , and thought I 'd go out for the evening , but then I realized there was no point in that , it was only putting off the inevitable . |
28 | I thought I 'd go off and have a look at the north Norfolk coast , up near Blakeney . ’ |
29 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
30 | I thought I 'd go back to Ireland for a bit and go to Clonmacnoise . |