Example sentences of "but he 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 When we were naughty he 'd give Fred the strap but he 'd sit me on the mantelpiece to make me mind my manners .
2 But he 'd discover she was n't the malleable little miss , if he tried to push her too far .
3 He 's a nice guy , but he 'd ruin Swift within five years . ’
4 We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today .
5 Joseph said you could n't be stopped from coming but he 'd arrange matters so you could n't speak to her .
6 ‘ I think he really enjoyed the first few , then the stories and the music got so trite , but he 'd go ahead and do them .
7 But he 'd go if she wanted .
8 But he 'd shift one of us .
9 ‘ I told him he was being silly but he 'd grow out of it . ’
10 But he 'd grow to like that .
11 ( There were times when he got in great positions and you wanted him to hammer the ball , but he 'd end up doing a sort of ‘ clip ’ shot . )
12 rung Keith and Keith said he did n't know whether he 'd be able to come today but he 'd do his best .
13 But he 'd try for the rest of his life to harm the boy if he could .
14 But he 'd come back , er , now we know he comes back once he 's had enough .
15 I caught him up and tried a few more questions , but he 'd cut off communications .
16 I remember seeing his ball disappear into what I thought was sand dunes left , but he 'd hit a woman on the head and nearly killed her , and his ball had flown back 60 or 70 yards into the fairway .
17 He 'd seen it himself but he 'd see it again just to keep latched on to them .
18 you you know I mean , but he 'd put the the research and the effort into it to get the pass .
19 He wondered about making himself a hot drink but he 'd have to wait too long to drink it .
20 But he 'd have no defence against a further charge that the explosion was not due to natural causes , unless you regard the detonation of a bomb , almost certainly a plastic explosive , under the main fuel tank as being a natural cause . ’
21 But he 'd have to get a doctor .
22 But he 'd have called the police anyway and they might really have caught us at it .
23 But he 'd have to drop the lemon tea lark when he went back to the Battalion ; it would be like turning up wearing a frock .
24 Someone once said he 'd have known me anywhere by the voice but he 'd have passed me by in the street on account I look much better in person than I do on the telly .
25 He could make five thousand more in the City , but he 'd have to put up with all the yuppies .
26 But he 'd have been home by half-past ten .
27 But he 'd have to wait at least another 2 and a half hours — that 's how long Mae Luz 's flight from Manila was delayed .
28 But he 'd have been , he 'd have been better , well well he would n't have done .
29 But he 'd become depressed about his exams and could n't concentrate on his work .
30 " But he 'd flinch anywhere if you squeeze him like you 're doing . "
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