Example sentences of "but we 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price was about the only thing about the house that was right , but we 'd both fallen in love with it right away . |
| 2 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 3 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 4 | procedure but we 'd already done that . |
| 5 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 6 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 7 | Maybe we ca n't stop that , ’ he hissed , ‘ but we 'd better make maternity a better deal for the others , or we 're going to be overrun . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We can stretch our legs and have some coffee and something to eat , but we 'd better keep going , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But we 'd better hurry up . ’ |
| 10 | If that 's clear we then need to go back and attack the hiatus hernia with more erm , but we 'd better get your chest sorted out first . |
| 11 | Nigel : OK , OK — but we 'd better hurry . |