Example sentences of "then we 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very friendly And it followed us into the lane several times and then we 'd chase it back |
| 2 | Then we 'd sit down and eat air meals to practise handling silverware or practise ‘ seating the lady ’ . |
| 3 | Then we 'd go on a ten- to twenty-mile march and when we came back it would all be weighed again . |
| 4 | And then I used to get on to the dray and sit beside him on the box and then we 'd go as far as Road , which is quite a stretch and I used o walk back . |
| 5 | We used to go walk round and shopping and then we 'd go and have a cup of coffee and then we 'd both catch a bus . |
| 6 | ‘ But of course , ’ said Bith firmly , ‘ if your honourships were wanting it , then we 'd go and be pleased to . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock . |
| 9 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 10 | And we 'd shut them out shunt them out and then we 'd collect the two coaches and take them over to the main yard , and put them under a cleaning platform you see for the cleaners . |
| 11 | Pull it in to the small boat , lay it on a box and then we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then we 'd rerun it further up the river . |
| 12 | Then we 'd dress and go back to the bar , order |
| 13 | no , no badly but like I just used to think he was so much more chatty than , we just used to sit there and go alright we 'd get off with each other then we 'd break like , you know like try , you 'd , like the conversation |
| 14 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 15 | and then we 'd 've gone down a different avenue |
| 16 | Then we 'd reassemble it , a steel tower twenty storeys high , and drill another hole in the hard red soil of Madagascar . |
| 17 | And then we 'd cycle to Pilton , and I was completely happy beside my big fine-looking uncle with his shiny blue-black hair while he made some dinner , and then we 'd potter about all afternoon in his garden and his little greenhouse . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd film for 12 hours , then we 'd watch an hour or two . |
| 19 | We used to see the men-at-arms , the crossbow men on their way to the ports for the crossing to France , then we 'd watch them return laden with booty . |
| 20 | Then we 'd walk up to Boots up Road . |
| 21 | We 'd walk through the lace market , we 'd walk up to , and then we 'd walk round to . |
| 22 | We quickly put it on and we erm tried to have a conversation and then we 'd walk off and I 'd ! |
| 23 | I would be flying over and staying with Angie for a couple of weeks at The Sherry Netherland , and Angie and I would go with Zowie in the daytime and then we 'd stay up all night with David because he functioned at night . |
| 24 | Pull it in to the small boat , lay it on a box and then we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then we 'd rerun it further up the river . |
| 25 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 26 | Then we 'd come back to the digs , wash our hair , have a wash if we were lucky , then on to the theatre . |
| 27 | But may be that we had a description , want to get the description out to as many people as possible , to see if anybody recognizes the person described , er then we 'd come to you there , give you the description of the |
| 28 | So we 'd jump up an get one of these rabbit skins and then we 'd take it back to wholesale fruiter in Street , and get fourpence for it . |
| 29 | Then we 'd draft reports , prepare maps , collect photographs , collate lists of growers and traffickers , plot their relationships , determine which illegal ports they were using and who they were paying off , make eight copies of everything and finally send it up the street to the embassy . |
| 30 | Ted might decide he does n't like me any more , that I laugh too loudly or drink too much of his beer , and then we 'd have to get a tent . |