Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] 'd [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised I 'd made a mistake as soon as he tightened his arms around my neck . |
| 2 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 3 | She 'd missed a chance to go skating with Auntie Joan and when she came downstairs , she found she 'd missed a visit from Grandpa as well . |
| 4 | And she liked the idea of going to work you see , she 'd she 'd got a family , she 'd be about oh she was about ten years older than I was and erm she looked out of place you know . |
| 5 | Zambia noticed she 'd grown a tuft of the real stuff back which fell into her eyes . |
| 6 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 7 | During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog . |
| 8 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
| 9 | But he walked very purposefully erm straight up there and then I noticed he 'd got a hook |
| 10 | I assumed he 'd made a mistake , but suppose he had n't ? |
| 11 | If any of the rest of us realized we 'd improved a story we 'd been telling , we 'd just keep quiet about it . ’ |
| 12 | Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake . ’ |
| 13 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 14 | Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’ |
| 15 | AROUND noon , I decided I 'd earned a break . |
| 16 | It was n't until yesterday that Swindon Police announced they 'd arrested a man in connection with Joan 's disappearance . |
| 17 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 18 | I knew I 'd used a contraction you know . |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone started laughing and I was concerned that ‘ Jacki ’ might feel alienated but he immediately started laughing himself and I knew I 'd signed a character who 'd get on fine in Scotland . ’ |
| 20 | I knew I 'd had a letter from him then , because it was the last time we were apart before he was called up . ’ |
| 21 | For a wild moment I thought I 'd made a mistake , had put it elsewhere , but that was nonsense of course . |
| 22 | But erm but I thought I 'd made a mistake somewhere . |
| 23 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
| 24 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 25 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ At first I thought I 'd hooked a tree because it felt so solid . |
| 27 | I thought I 'd a had a , I thought I 'd had a problem but I , I injured myself as well . |
| 28 | Laugh , Ah thought Ah 'd hud a relapse of my cystitis . |
| 29 | She knew she 'd made a hash of the whole thing , and she 'd let her tongue run away with her . |
| 30 | I would have picked number one you see and erm of course there was the er I knew the name Barbara erm and knew she 'd got a shop called Hitched in Northampton er er anyway when I was in the library I thought well I 'll just see if Hitched is in the telephone book you see , and it was . |