Example sentences of "[vb past] i 'd [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother always reckoned I 'd end up either in prison or in parliament . ’ |
| 2 | I reckoned I 'd come back midday and have a look over everything , but I do n't think there 'll be anything missing . |
| 3 | So I figured I 'd put up the five g's , get my name in the papers , maybe ease off the pressure a little . |
| 4 | Well we had er , we took out all the gear for that , so I knew a lot , being a crane driver I 'd know what gear I wanted but a lot of these stevedores what are on there now , they were lorry drivers and they ai n't got a clue what they do , so there part of my job meant I 'd go round and give advice . |
| 5 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
| 6 | I knew I 'd give in under whatever duresses Goreng had up his sleeve for me , so what was the point of resisting ? |
| 7 | You knew I 'd move in with you — perhaps you already felt our child kick inside your belly — ; you saw us wave it off to school . |
| 8 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up working for a bossy woman . ’ |
| 9 | I thought I 'd end up feeling frustrated by you staying on your moralistic high horse without ever offering any concrete political proposals . |
| 10 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up outside the ground propositioning people , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I 'd drop round to see Irena after work , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Simone flushed and said quickly , ‘ I thought I 'd drop by to visit . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I happened to be in the UK , ’ he said briskly , ‘ so I thought I 'd drop by and see how you were doing . |
| 14 | I thought I 'd walk down to the Club and see you and Antony there , Daddy , but there were so many people , I could hardly move . |
| 15 | Well I just thought I 'd go over now and I might as well go down the shop when |
| 16 | I dreaded seeing him , and thought I 'd go out for the evening , but then I realized there was no point in that , it was only putting off the inevitable . |
| 17 | I thought I 'd go off and have a look at the north Norfolk coast , up near Blakeney . ’ |
| 18 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 19 | I thought I 'd go back to Ireland for a bit and go to Clonmacnoise . |
| 20 | Then , as it 's such a lovely evening — ’ he looked up at the painted sky ‘ — I thought I 'd wander along and see you . ’ |
| 21 | I thought I 'd find out how you got on . ’ |
| 22 | Pam was a very down-to-earth person and they thought I 'd get on well . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll give you a hand until the rush dies down and then I thought I 'd get on with the account orders for tomorrow , ’ she said casually , but the girl gave her a strange look , and Folly had a nasty feeling that her voice was n't as fully under control as she had thought . |
| 24 | never thought I 'd get down to this level . |
| 25 | ‘ I just thought I 'd look in , since I was passing , to see if you were all right . ’ |
| 26 | I — er — just thought I 'd look in to tell you I was back . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I 'd turn in for the night . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't mind waiting , ’ she told him politely and pleasantly , though she could n't resist adding , ‘ Rosemary and I are friends ; I have n't seen her for ages , so I thought I 'd ring up for a chat . ’ |
| 29 | Thought I 'd call in . ’ |
| 30 | So I thought I 'd call in before Arthur got down there , just to see what was what . |