Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] 'd [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 painting the kitchen once and I got into so much trouble it took him so long to rub it all off and start again , he made me promise I 'd never touch a paint brush again but he I mean , he would definitely be able to tell you what paint he used and
2 I mean we 'd never have been able to afford all this .
3 Well I think that 's quite I mean I 'd probably knock him down to a hundred anyway .
4 I mean I 'd rather leave it if I can until it does
5 I know they all have but I mean I 'd rather have the ordinary names and then
6 Well no I 'm not actually back to the centimetre cost I do n't agree with the centimetre argument er the centimetre argument I mean I 'd rather have one good solid paragraph which
7 I mean I 'd rather have tea , sorry , yeah .
8 but I mean I 'd rather have a Calibre than that definitely
9 And I think in the past there there actually been music in in foyer bar erm yeah I mean I 'd certainly look at that I mean .
10 Well I mean I 'd certainly use it .
11 I mean I 'd really like to , but I 've already been shouldered out of the Nativity play .
12 Bu I mean I 'd only advise those if you have like er you know , children with grubby hands and
13 Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is .
14 Yeah cos I mean you 'd probably run her back , rather than her biking .
15 I mean he 'd perhaps get erm you know er let's say four hundred pounds a year on his building society , so he 'd have some extra income , er four five , just over five thousand pounds a year , that 's .
16 You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself .
17 And she 'll , she 's one-off so I mean she 'd never go to p
18 And look I mean she 'd never spend
19 ‘ Oh , I expect you 'd both like some coffee too . ’
20 and I I found I 'd just put a hundred there instead and that 's why I put two hundred
21 So I promised I 'd never hit anyone again if I need n't go back to Dr Pseud , and they said yes .
22 ‘ If I ca n't do what I want I 'd rather call this whole thing off . ’
23 I guessed I 'd just have to swallow it strong and hot and black and bitter , I 'd run clean out of Marvel .
24 Yeah That 's the only bit I hated I 'd rather have been at work all week and I did n't
25 Yeah I know we 'd still go up the Clickers sometimes but we do n't have to go all the time do we ?
26 Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone .
27 Even if it 's true that I would have gone to prison to protect somebody else or make some dubious point about the freedom of the press , I know I 'd only have been doing it to make myself look good .
28 I know you 'd never hurt me .
29 I 'd rather — well , I know how discreet and wise you are , I know you 'd never say anything to them .
30 Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her
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