Example sentences of "she 'd [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 In the fading light , she began to see things she 'd not noticed before .
2 She 'd not been long in the village .
3 No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went .
4 Lord , she 'd not realised the cliffs were so high !
5 She 'd not had a bath since … since …
6 In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble .
7 The realization that she was working for Hauser was opening new horizons for her , but she 'd not had time to work out how she could exploit the knowledge .
8 Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile .
9 Although she had climbed the West Face of the Romsdalhorn , shared leads on the Third Sella Tower and led a rope up Store Skagastoltind in the Jotenheim , she was convinced she 'd not yet experienced the full horrors and rigours of a ‘ real ’ alpine day .
10 She found herself regretting she 'd not been entirely open with him .
11 She 'd not been able to think what to say .
12 She tipped the cassette box out on the floor and jumbled them all back what she 'd not heard for ages was now at the top .
13 She made coq au vin on his birthday , painstakingly following a recipe ( a thing she 'd not done since basic cookery lessons at school ) and he was so pleased he bought her a Cordon Bleu cookbook .
14 She 'd not given any address but the stamp had a WC1 postmark .
15 If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity .
16 She 'd not seen them .
17 Well she 'd not had much of a life had she ?
18 yeah , you can go ok watch her actually because er , she went right back up on these bloody chairs this afternoon , I mean she really cried , oh course I mean she , oh when Catherine come in I mean she 'd not long done it , then she nodded off to sleep I said oh they always say you should try , I mean I
19 turned up that she 'd not invited .
20 Er the er the lady he was a widower and his , er his f er he was with a lady who was a widow and erm I know for a fact that she 'd not spent a penny , she had n't p you know for a you know , of the trip or , or he just would n't let her , I mean , I mean you , you 've got to have some money have n't you to keep
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