Example sentences of "and we 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd decorated the outside and we 'd nearly finished . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I told him my Vanessa story and he told me his and we 'd both heard them before ! |
| 4 | The most impressive part of Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows ( what a mouthful ! ) is the Encyclopaedia , the browse bar was less than 50% down the list of virus information , and we 'd already counted 500 separate items ! |
| 5 | ‘ And we 'd just bought a new car . ’ |
| 6 | Next thing they were down with the measuring up and we 'd just got a four thousand pound rate bill ! |
| 7 | stayed and Andy 's and we 'd just gone over to the shops and . |
| 8 | Cos the back end you know is is slightly higher than the front end and we 'd just got it in and the front was about that so it was n't gon na Oh well can you imagine the perspiration there would be , |
| 9 | He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake ! |
| 10 | Squiffy everywhere and erm that night the evening activity was tobogganing and we 'd just finished all this wine . |
| 11 | But Mount Kenya is over 17,000ft ( 5100m ) and we 'd also learnt that many walkers and climbers fail to reach the top simply because of altitude sickness . |
| 12 | Not only had we increased our self-awareness , but we felt content , happy with ourselves and we 'd also received the encouragement to go for the things we want — to seize the day . |
| 13 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 14 | And we 'd better clear all Maternity calls through here as well . |
| 15 | TIME FOR A BIT OF FUN , and we 'd better involve the whole band in this one . |
| 16 | It was , therefore , with a certain displeasure , that I received , one Friday evening , Nigel 's announcement that he had been sent details of a converted mill in Wales and we 'd better drive up the next morning to take a look at it . |
| 17 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 18 | ‘ And we 'd better make sure that it does n't , ’ said Caspar , moving back to prop the door open with a stone . |
| 19 | I told them there was nothing much more we could usefully do there and we 'd better leave before we were ejected . |
| 20 | And we 'd better go back now . |
| 21 | Yeah , cos we 've got to do your inhaler as well and we 'd better wipe that all that muck off your face , all that tomato sauce |
| 22 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 23 | And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about |
| 24 | This awful and we 'd actually got the first window here which is which is . |
| 25 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 26 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 27 | we 'll walk down the road at the back and we 'd only just turned round the corner from the Claremont and we found this restaurant and it was , it was an absolutely brilliant chef , really nice restaurant , really high quality and it was was quite reasonable price , it was n't cheap . |
| 28 | This fantasy was so vivid to her that she would even rehearse this line out loud , looking at herself in her mirror as she smoked the last cigarette of the night , after she 'd taken her face off , after all the noise was over and we 'd all gone home . |