Example sentences of "i 'd think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'd thought a lot about the part . |
| 2 | What people objected to in the end was not God , as I 'd thought , but the suburban house in the background and the garden out of House and Garden . |
| 3 | Peter does n't ’ And it was at this stage that someone else said , ‘ But Peter would n't like it , ’ and some little woman , who I 'd thought until that moment was a nun , said , ‘ Oh , fuck Big Petie . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd thought of that . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes from my high Chiswick window I 'd thought about horrors down below the surface , out of sight . |
| 6 | An offer I could n't refuse , Dee-Dee had said ; and I 'd thought only of money . |
| 7 | Mummy is there and I 'd thought she was in good hands but of course I could n't visit her as often as I 'd like while earning my megamillions . |
| 8 | I 'd thought he might suddenly take off and run , but he seemed glued to the bench . |
| 9 | It was that easy I wish I 'd thought of it myself . |
| 10 | I 'd thought she was like me , wanting but scared . |
| 11 | I wish I 'd thought … |
| 12 | At first I 'd thought that Kāli was joking , that she 'd sneaked up behind me , snatched the karaso and hidden it up her skirt or behind a tree . |
| 13 | The boar was much bigger than I 'd thought . |
| 14 | If I 'd thought it noisy where we were , where we went made talking impossible . |
| 15 | I 'd thought … hoped … that after all these weeks … ’ |
| 16 | The house was perfect — well , it would have been perfect ; it needed a complete overhaul , of course , redecorating from top to bottom , and then I 'd thought of building some guest-houses , and it seemed a little silly to have a villa with perfect anchorage unless I used it , so I 'd thought of a yacht … |
| 17 | The house was perfect — well , it would have been perfect ; it needed a complete overhaul , of course , redecorating from top to bottom , and then I 'd thought of building some guest-houses , and it seemed a little silly to have a villa with perfect anchorage unless I used it , so I 'd thought of a yacht … |
| 18 | Wish I 'd thought to tape the call ; could have been a bootleg bestseller . |
| 19 | Now she 's gone , and I do n't have to pay out , I 'm not badly off ; I 've saved a bit , and I 'd thought there would be no need to let the room , but if you and Mr Paul was looking for somewhere clean and comfortable , with good food , and reasonable as it 's yourselves , perhaps you 'd think it over . ’ |
| 20 | I asked if I could wait for Frankie but Mum , who I 'd thought was asleep , piped up at that . |
| 21 | Could have , if I 'd thought … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The cat was poisoned , I 'd thought . |
| 23 | Lord Tebbit tells me he has still to agree on his luxury — ‘ the BBC seem to be rather narrow-minded about some of the luxuries I 'd thought of . ’ |
| 24 | For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake . |
| 25 | A great gimmick and I wish I 'd thought of it . |
| 26 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 27 | I thought I 'd thought of that first . ’ |
| 28 | I would have told him if I 'd thought there was a cat 's chance in hell he 'd have provided a guard for you — a constable on your doorstep . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ For one thing , the man was more unreliable than I 'd thought . |
| 30 | Actually , I chew on a piece of mozzarella and merely wish that I 'd thought of bringing a silver pistol , because , let's face it , Dudley Moore played Patch the Elf in the 40-million-dollar Santa Claus — The Movie which unlike say Ishtar or Hudson Hawk , is consistently unbearable for every single one of its sad seconds . |