Example sentences of "we 'd [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caroline and the family would often come with me and we 'd stay at the Butcher 's Arms overnight . |
| 2 | He 'd fit the electrodes to my fingers , a band around my chest and a blood-pressure gauge to my left arm and then we 'd go at it , heat full up , windows closed , sweating like pigs because that was supposed to make the polygraph more accurate . |
| 3 | ‘ But father did n't approve of the game , and if ever he came in when we were playing it , we 'd stop at once and pretend to be talking about something else . |
| 4 | We agreed we 'd leave at seven . ’ |
| 5 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 6 | Its omnifont recognition algorithms teamed up with the use of the dictionary have given us a recognition rate we 'd estimate at between 98% and 99% , and all without having to teach the program what any letters are , which we consider to be very good . |
| 7 | The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire . |
| 8 | Erm the f the first thing er first of two things that we said we 'd look at just now were erm the kind of work that you did erm with clients in the flats . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , now we 've survived another of your mini-disasters , ’ he continued , ‘ I thought that after dinner we 'd look at the plans ; it will save time tomorrow . |
| 10 | You know , and tha , we would n't go and have a look at a parcel machine system we 'd look at lovely potatoes , . |
| 11 | I was dreading the scene we 'd have at my Promise Ceremony , but when it came to it , she was actually on her best behaviour . |