There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.

Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.

If I'd been careful it never woulda '' -- he stopped abruptly.

`` 'nother minute I'd have been fine.

I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't remembered that she'd played Hedda Gabler in her highschool dramatics course.

I had been among the top third in my class at N.Y.U., had wanted desperately to go to medical school, but I'd run out of money and energy at the same time.

My lights would have been a giveaway if I'd tried to shadow him in the conventional manner.

Moreover, I'd have lost him if it hadn't been for the electronic shadowing device.

I would have been negligent and a goddam lousy cop to boot, if I'd sat around this station all night when somebody got away with murder in my district.

I'd have phoned sooner but I've been busy ''.

Maybe I didn't see as much of Gladdy as I'd like, but how much worse it would have been if I'd had to board her out somewhere after Alice went -- send my daughter to an orphanage or a boarding-home.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

From the entire eastern half of the nation they'd be coming, members of the Young Christians' League, and I'd been chosen to represent our chapter.

I'd been seeing Johnnie almost a year now, but I still didn't want to leave him for five whole days.

I'd never been on a date before.

I'd been used to penny bangers before.

If I wasn't from Tottenham I think I'd have been an Everton fan as they're my second team if you like.

He's been unwell a couple of times and his drum tech has stood in at a few festivals, but if he was permanently out, well, I don't know what I'd do, actually.

I'd been traveling quite a bit, living in hotels, eating bad food, drinking a lot — too much.

`` I'd simply like to know if it is as good as you kind people seem to think '', he said.

" Don't think I'm getting hard, Burnie ," he wrote to his brother, " but I'd go to hell to hear a good band.

The meaning is " bigotry ", and the wordplay explains itself, indicated subtly by the word " take " ( since one word " takes " another ): " aside " means APART and I'd is simply ID, so APART and ID " take " HE ( which is, in cryptic crossword usage, a perfectly good synonym for " him ").

The good honest silhouette maker H Müller had sung Leopoldl's praises to your brother, so he found out that the child is with me, which I'd never told him: so this was how the good idea occurred to him or perhaps his wife.

I'd have paid good money to stay out of here.

Björk reacted to the positive reviews hesitantly, stating that if she'd " delivered exactly the same album and I came from Nottingham, I'd have got completely different reviews, normal down-to-earth ones " and that Debut " was a bit of a rehearsal and it's really not that good.

The young Hines took classical piano lessons-at eleven he was playing organ in his local Baptist church-but he also had a " good ear and a good memory " and could re-play songs and numbers he heard in theaters and park ' concerts ': " I'd be playing songs from these shows months before the song copies came out.

" If I could get a TV series or a good movie, I swear I'd do it for nothing ," he told a journalist.

" I love the Braves, so when president John Schuerholz looked me in my face and told me ' I'd bet my house and my family that you won't be traded ' that's good enough confidence for me coming from a General Manager, and then out of nowhere, one week later I'm gone.

Hayden explained that he was not comfortable with the OSP's analysis: " I got three great kids, but if you tell me go out and find all the bad things they've done, Hayden, I can build you a pretty good dossier, and you'd think they were pretty bad people, because that was what I was looking for and that's what I'd build up.

Clooney said, " Out of Sight was the first time where I had a say, and it was the first good screenplay that I'd read where I just went, ' That's it.

Suspecting that fellow teacher Carter may be avoiding war duty, he muses, " I'd give a good deal to know whether he's really got a gammy knee ", to which an acerbic colleague responds, " I suppose we couldn't get some chubby cherub to give him the white feather " as a means of accusing the suspected malingerer.

Fellow newscaster Reginald Bosanquet was inspired to write poetry for her: " I prayed, I vowed, that I'd be good ; and many people thought I would ; but then I got my just reward ; 18 nights with Anna Ford.

Known for his great wit, Gomez often remarked, " I'd rather be lucky than good.

I'd always wanted to be a good drummer and it's just ironic that I've turned out to be a bass player.

He attended Silverdale School, and was enthusiastic about football, later reflecting, " I'd have probably preferred to be a footballer if I could have been good enough.

Upon seeing this, Magtymguly composed the following lines: “ Flood took my manuscript, thus leaving me behind with tears in my eyes .” The poem also contains the lines “ Making my dear life lost to all that's good, / An evil fate wrought awesome sacrilege / Hurling the books I'd written to the flood, / To leave me bookless with my grief and rage .”

In " Saving Grace, Again ( 2 )" it is suggested that Karen uses Rosario as a horse or at least treats her like one because she asks Jack if " winter white is a good colour for Rosario's saddlebag " and in " Cheatin ' Trouble Blues ", after climbing up numerous flights of stairs, said, " Well, if I'd known we were gonna do all this walking, I would've saddled up Rosario, like when we go to Greece!

" There were some really good looking girls running out with their hands over their heads ... Did suspects try to have sex with any of the good looking girls ?... At least if you are going to kill yourself and kill all the kids, why wouldn't you have some sex ?... If I was going to kill some people, I'd take them out with sex ".

I'd gotten off to a good start.

`` I'd give anything if I could have found a girl like you ''.

Although Fulks never says her name, the line " When the little one took the mike, I knew I'd fallen " suggests the particular " Bangle girl " he pines for is Susanna Hoffs, the shortest member of the group and frequent lead singer.

I'd look at other girls my age and feel perplexed by their obvious interest in the latest fashion, which boy in class was the cutest, and who looked the most like cover girl Christie Brinkley.

" met her at the 7-11 Now I'm in 7th heaven Tell me, tell me Can this be true I never thought I'd ever meet a girl like you.

" I'd go home and be a one girl circus, taking the parts of everyone I'd seen, living them before the glass.

I'd suppose I am the luckiest girl in the world.

I told a ' Frisco girl I'd come for freedom

I'd had the fame and money every girl dreams about – and the romance.

With Gaston and Douglas I'd used my body more ways than any white girl my age I'd read about or known.

At age 19, for the first time a girl came on to her — " it was the first time I'd ever had a girl's body pressed against mine "— and this initiation into sex ( by a girl of the same age ) became an affair that lasted the better part of a year.

The dejection he was experiencing, coupled with memories of Skye and prior drug use, led to emotional distress: " the loneliness that I was feeling triggered memories of my time with Ione and how I'd had this beautiful angel of a girl who was willing to give me all of her love, and instead of embracing that, I was downtown with fucking gangsters shooting speedballs under a bridge.

If you look a certain way everybody goes, ' White girl ,' and I'd go, No, that's not what I am.

Charlie Brown first fell in love with her during a school lunch period on November 12, 1963 saying, " I'd sure like to eat lunch with that little red-haired girl ..."

" I'd like to see Charlie Brown kick that football, and if he gets the little red-haired girl, that's fine with me ", Donna said around the time Schulz announced his retirement in 1999.

The song's lyrics establish a threatening tone towards the singer's unnamed girlfriend ( referred to throughout the song as " little girl "), claiming " I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.

Having returned home to Virginia for Christmas 1996, Grohl turned the initial riff into a complete song and wrote the lyrics after falling for a new woman, " That song's about a girl that I'd fallen in love with and it was basically about being connected to someone so much, that not only do you love them physically and spiritually, but when you sing along with them you harmonise perfectly.

Luckily she's changed because I don't think I'd be here if she hadn't because she started off being a pretty, pretty bad girl actually, causing loads of trouble for Roy and Hayley.