Example sentences of "she 'd [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Hers was on the floor by the bedside table — she 'd probably knocked it off when she had a glass of water , or when she took the veronal . ’
2 In fact the prospect of hosting a dinner party was so fraught with terrors that she 'd probably started to get drunk for it the night before .
3 The girl with the scissors had a washed-out look , she 'd probably got nits crawling under her blonde hair dye .
4 She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid .
5 She 'd probably heard rumours , and did n't like you fraternizing with the enemy camp . ’
6 In any case , she 'd probably got as much out of Andrew as she was going to .
7 Kate Maybury did remember her mother , and she 'd probably delivered Juliet .
8 But she 'd probably been too wrapped up in her own misery to notice anyone elses .
9 I would have thought she 'd probably made a mistake somewhere along the line .
10 He let the sentence hang unfinished , and she shivered , struck anew by the danger she 'd voluntarily placed herself in .
11 She 'd triumphantly managed to negotiate the traffic to park in Palace Square , then wandered around the shops , glad of her flat tan sandals , with the promise of coffee at one of the shady pavement cafés when she 'd tired herself out .
12 She could n't take any man seriously — or at least not one she 'd yet met .
13 Ruth rose too , suddenly held by a despair more absolute than any she 'd yet felt .
14 Dot realized she 'd already left to visit the man who was a gutless jink .
15 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 . ’
16 But she 'd already started to dissipate the beauty of her voice with various kinds of addiction — narcotics , alcohol and companions who were n't altogether kind to her — and the last ten years of her life ( she died in 1959 ) find the light , drifting delivery of the pre-war years shrivelling into the croak of a haggard ghost .
17 The fact that she 'd already told the police did n't matter .
18 It was a risk , and she 'd already made one monumental error of character judgement .
19 But she 'd already made up her mind .
20 If she 'd already heard of Burrows ’ escape , she would assume that our attention would be directed towards him .
21 When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother .
22 She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws .
23 My grandmother is a keen birdwatcher and she 'd already introduced me to a lot of the different birds that visited her bird-table , telling me what they ate and showing me their nests and explaining how they were made and what they were made of .
24 She had lost him for a while , at the party , but she 'd already been too drunk to worry .
25 We were counting on her coming with us today but she 'd already made plans to meet some friends in Times Square . ’
26 Her little squad had survived one firefight , but she 'd already lost a quarter of her manpower and she was sure that the enemy had plenty of reserves They needed rest and medication , that was the first priority .
27 ‘ I 've still got the knife , ’ she said , but she knew she 'd already said it too many times .
28 She began to hope that maybe she 'd already been rescued and this was n't Spiderglass at all .
29 There was nothing else to do ; on her prowls through the empty burrow she 'd already viewed the geology cubes and there was nothing else but tasteless pornography .
30 She 'd already been there over two weeks , and still had n't been able to speak to the Dane .
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