Example sentences of "but we 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aye , Faither , ’ George agreed , ‘ but we 'd 'ave lost 'im if I 'd left it any longer . ’ |
| 2 | Your friend Devlin has n't a hope of getting you out , of course , but we 'd love him to try . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But we 'd like a formal identification from you , if you will . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , but we 'd like to be there at the beginning so that we could if we want to , then run away , ’ Eve explained . |
| 5 | Well , it 's been nice talking to you , but we 'd like to see the Oracle now . |
| 6 | We 've got a flat now , very nice , but we 'd like a house in Yonder , down by the river , but I expect they 're more expensive . ’ |
| 7 | Of course it will be difficult because at the moment the er the legal minimum is thirty miles an hour in , in any city , but we 'd like to see Oxford as a pilot for a twenty mile an hour speed limit which is no good if you leave the roads as they are . |
| 8 | ‘ But we 'd enjoy seeing what we could do and , you never know , we might surprise ourselves . |
| 9 | We did n't really need to cut it up into so many small pieces i would work but we 'd get two of these each cos we 've got twelve little pieces now and there are only six of us to share it out so we 'd say , Oh well have er we 'll we 'll have two pieces each two twelfths . |
| 10 | ‘ That narrows it down a bit , but we 'd need a forensic scientist to establish whether the threads came from Alain 's slacks or not . ’ |
| 11 | They said the mules would go round by a good track but we 'd explore the river . |
| 12 | I thought of making soup with these , but we 'd lose the delicacy of the flavour . ’ |
| 13 | I mean , I had Tony to go through and find key words that we knew we were going to need , you know , simple words like the , of , with , a , that sort of thing , that we knew that okay , we would n't use immediately , but we 'd look , ah there that goes there , and use it straight away . |
| 14 | Now the debate we 're having is whether or not we fill those and transfer , not go and recruit extra people but we 'd reduce the S I S , cos one of the issues is that erm the overspend on Marvin is seven figures . |
| 15 | As a matter of fact we were like two atom bombs — we 'd go off together and there would be this tremendous explosion but we 'd come down together , too . |
| 16 | ‘ We could have the name on their jerseys — but we 'd have to pay for the strip ! ’ |
| 17 | but we 'd have to add another if we only had one penny we 'd have to add another nine to get ten P . |
| 18 | But we 'd have brought him round when he got to know the club better . ’ |
| 19 | But we 'd have stopped him , the proper way . |
| 20 | Mathematically we can still be caught , but we 'd have to make a big mistake . |
| 21 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 22 | That 'll be one read , but we 'd have to read it to you and it 'll take us a long time ! |
| 23 | But we 'd have it on less , except you just ca n't , you lit physically on the clock , you ca n't put erm |
| 24 | If you were to come down the Cowley Road — I invite you to come down and and come and see the situation , because , you know , if I said okay anyone can smoke or drink in the church or churchyard in Saint Mary and John , the building would be full , not full literally , but we 'd have people all day in there smoking and drinking and there would be nowhere quiet for people to pray . |