Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [adv] said " in BNC.

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1 And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ?
2 , ’ Eric rambled on in the earpiece , apparently oblivious to what I 'd just said .
3 Wish I 'd just said seven now !
4 ‘ It 's a great shame because every year the prize-wining pumpkin is used in the seeds contest by a local pub and I 'd already said they could have it . ’
5 So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing
6 and then he asked me then and erm , he did n't know whether to ask me or not , well he knew , he knew more or less I 'd say yes anyway , cos I more , I 'd already said yes , but not to his face , so but he did n't know whether to because Henry fancied me
7 Now I 'd always said to myself , ‘ I 'll never join the Masonic Lodge , ’ and therefore I would n't join the Bobby Burns Club .
8 We 'd often talked about it and I 'd always said , No , I would never do anything like that until I got married .
9 Erm cos I 'd always said ooh I would n't ever have a sunbed and all that , but I did in the end , cos we were n't gon na go anywhere so
10 If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ?
11 He said : ‘ You 'd already said his calls were being made from callboxes , a tap would have been unlikely to trace him unless he repeatedly used the same box and he 's too bright for that .
12 Yes , the implications are very heavy , I had not realised what you 'd just said , and we should refer that to Amanda and indeed take all take it on board , otherwise we 'll be taking on the world .
13 Rose-Marie glided up in her clinging black lunch frock , raised her finger and said , as she 'd already said several times that day , ‘ Catreeona , this is your last warning . ’
14 ‘ I 've still got the knife , ’ she said , but she knew she 'd already said it too many times .
15 She 'd also said it was a Man with a capital M and you do n't get much lower in Lisabeth 's book .
16 For a moment , she was n't sure of what she 'd just said .
17 That 's why I agreed to visit la Principessa , she 'd almost said , but what business was that of his ?
18 She 'd never said that to him before — nor indeed to anyone in her whole life .
19 I I and she 'd never said a word !
20 She 'd always said he 'd kill himself driving like that and now he had .
21 Too big for his boots , as she 'd always said .
22 But none of it was true — she 'd only said it to cover her own growing confusion , a confusion she now realised had come out of what she 'd begun to feel for him .
23 Sighing helplessly , she 'd merely said , ‘ If you do n't give these girls a terrific reference they 're likely to turn around and sue you in the courts for defamation of character ! ’
24 Because of the Suez crisis , short-term regulars to whom we 'd previously said our goodbyes were getting re-mobilised and returning to the Canal one .
25 He 'd nearly said cooked .
26 Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse .
27 And then I asked my father on Tuesday to remind him and he said , he 'd already said he 'd fetch them in on Tuesday .
28 What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel .
29 What he 'd just said reminded her of that business last night with the tape .
30 Was he right — about what he 'd just said ?
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