Example sentences of "[adv] i 'd [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only I 'd recognized the signs of Bubbleshake contamination when I met him . |
| 2 | ‘ If only I 'd known the truth about you , Shiona , there would have been no need for me to keep running away from my feelings for you . |
| 3 | I enjoy the more wishy-washy concepts — I wish perhaps I 'd had the chance to do a physics and philosophy option — and it seems to me that when we do things like quantum physics nobody bothers very much with the concepts that that presents — they just tend to give you all the theory . |
| 4 | Obviously I 'd left the rabbits alone for too long , or I 'd have known about the existence of such a brute . |
| 5 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 6 | So I 'd spent the intervening three years elsewhere , writing for a fun pop paper and then polishing turds in the press office of a hateful record company . |
| 7 | But once I 'd taken the plunge and got myself organised , I found it was n't bad at all , and not nearly as difficult as I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 8 | It was he who arranged medical care , arranged the hospital — even arranged for an adoption ; but once I 'd had the baby , and she so soft and little , so lovely , I could n't do it . |
| 9 | I 'd started locking my shirts in a desk drawer every night , except that now I 'd lost the key with all my Ben Shermans in there . |
| 10 | She wanted other children , and by then I 'd taken the decision never to have any more and had a vasectomy . |
| 11 | Then I 'd had the impression of a pleasant face , but no crowd-raiser . |
| 12 | For a decade till then I 'd had the adrenalin flowing . |
| 13 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |