Example sentences of "[conj] we 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight , I should have said ‘ Hallo ’ and then , if necessary , reminded him where we 'd previously met . |
| 2 | ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying . |
| 3 | The officer there apologised in excellent English as I tersely explained that we 'd already paid . |
| 4 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 5 | Then we decided that we 'd better get back . |
| 6 | Innocently I point out that we 'd better return the key to him , since if we leave the flat unattended he could say we stole his best furniture . |
| 7 | ‘ I think , Mr Crumwallis , ’ said Septimus Coffin , marching in , ‘ that we 'd better sit down and have a really good talk . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 9 | but talking estimating the next one is that the one that we 'd originally called Talking Print Buying that I 'd got |
| 10 | Then , at , the news that we 'd all worked so hard for . |
| 11 | Actress Susan Hampshire added : ‘ It 's something that we 'd all been led to expect . ’ |
| 12 | The fact that we 'd all been put together was universally accepted as a sign that the end was so close that they did n't need to keep us apart any longer . |
| 13 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 14 | Lush , however , are in a celebratory mood — we were the only band to be paid and boasted all night that we 'd actually headlined Lollapalooza . |
| 15 | But I mean he was very interested and when I said that we 'd actually done a recycling directory and that I was thinking |
| 16 | Er for example all of us in this room , if we went to one destination , we 'd probably all come away with a different combination of things that we 'd actually got from it . |
| 17 | It 's a , it 's a fascinating report and having been involved in the Food Forum discussion , when we , it was reported to us that we 'd actually lost a community nutritionist , I read this with great interest to see just how now the professional was seen through sections . |
| 18 | Er another allocation under I five would simply mean that we 'd more land to find in and around main areas . |
| 19 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 20 | Yeah I , I mean to be honest on that I was more conscious of the fact that we 'd only got fifteen |
| 21 | Monsieur Venet , the proprietor 's son is the chef and cooks with a passion , creating dishes with wonderfully rich sauces and flavours that we 'd never savoured before . |
| 22 | They did n't quite tell us that we 'd never had it so good , but the impression they gave was that if we trusted Honest John and Uncle Norman to look after the nation 's piggy bank , all would be well . |
| 23 | We had a really marvellous holiday in October — three whole weeks , much longer than we 'd ever been able to have while Michael was working . |
| 24 | We worked harder than we 'd ever worked in our lives . |
| 25 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 26 | This particular section 's taken some slices already , so we 'd better watch what we say to them . |
| 27 | ‘ So we 'd never met , you see . |
| 28 | We 'd decorated the outside and we 'd nearly finished . |
| 29 | But Copernican thinking has already led astray many astronomers who should have known better , and we 'd best be careful when they use the same logic to try to convince us that we and our planet are nothing special . |
| 30 | I told him my Vanessa story and he told me his and we 'd both heard them before ! |