Example sentences of "[pron] say we 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Blaming it on the Company would be just a fallback — you would n't believe me if I said I was n't drinking of that but you might believe me if I say we 'd prefer the good old British way : that nothing happened and there 's no blame at all .
2 Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ?
3 I said we 'd bring her .
4 I said we 'd go away together for the weekend , ’ said Preston .
5 I said we 'd go and watch her . ’
6 Christine I said we 'd meet her by the baked beans so
7 I said we 'd need a table of your own then
8 I said we 'd have to talk to everyone in the darts club , ’ said Burden , stopping down at the water 's edge , ‘ and I reckon we have .
9 er , I said if it had been a normal Saturday I said we 'd have cancelled that you know , we 'd have met you in Duffley but er , I said my mum 's supposed to be dancing .
10 That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday .
11 well I said we 'd pick up aunty Jean at twenty too eight
12 I mean , , she said we 'd have to give , I said oh I said , we used to , guess what I said ?
13 She said we 'd get some in the sales , but I suppose it 's too late now .
14 And you said we 'd have dinner afterwards at the Chinese restaurant at Ely . "
15 It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er
16 We said we 'd pass on offers .
17 It is it 's more of a little story and it 's not a front page shocker which I think is what we said we 'd set out to write , a front page shocker okay so I think you 've got to think about the kind of words you use .
18 Naturally we said we 'd stop work for the day .
19 But we said we 'd build in local stone and blend in with the area .
20 Yeah , I think we said we 'd go .
21 Cos we said we 'd go to , for some time up to er , oh what motorway John ?
22 I have n't yet no , but I think he 's outside mixing cement , we said we 'd go and give him a hand to put his posts in
23 Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different .
24 Well w we said we 'd prefer to be upstairs
25 And that 's how it started and it was really just you know we said we 'd do a bit of fund raising and I think the men were pretty sceptical of you know they thi they thought we might fight over the first tin of beans or whatever .
26 We said we 'd do that .
27 With the Maestro and Montego we said we 'd respond to customer demand .
28 Well we did because we said we 'd have to specify what to .
29 We said we 'd ring them up that afternoon to see what everybody thought .
30 We were afraid to tell Dad the exact truth so we said we 'd put them there to prevent them getting broken .
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