Example sentences of "i 'd [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 2 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 3 | Next day , as soon as I 'd finished giving a police statement about a drug addict who had threatened me and attempted to steal syringes and prescriptions , I went to see her in hospital . |
| 4 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 5 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 6 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 7 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |