Example sentences of "we would say " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 'd say , we 're paying good money for this . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd be better if we 'd say our prayers . ’ |
| 3 | In one the grandmother was a country publican with her own farm , and ‘ on a Sunday she used to make broth and put plenty of salt in it , and then the children had to stop outside and we 'd say , ‘ Are you my granny ? ’ |
| 4 | We all talked about him , of course ; his name was now ‘ The New Boy ’ , so how was The New Boy ? we 'd say . |
| 5 | We 'd say , ‘ Come on — we 'll see what we can find . ’ |
| 6 | We 'd say : ‘ Bugger off — we 'll give you five minutes . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was laughed at , but secretly we 'd say ‘ Oh God , they 're being stupid ’ . ’ |
| 8 | And we 'd say , ‘ This is Neverending Staircase off an unreleased Rolling Stones album . ’ |
| 9 | More a case of making a meal out of a mouthful , we 'd say … . |
| 10 | Perhaps we 'd say " Three and a half minutes ' . |
| 11 | Say milky cocoa we 'd say , |
| 12 | And then I 'll have told a lie , the first , but soon after , because of it , I guess , we 'd say goodbye . |
| 13 | We 'd say , " What happened next ? " and she would n't say a word . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And er , a lot of them were younger than me , but I do n't know why but I 've lasted lo But anyway , m me and me sister we always used to , we 'd say to me dad when we went to fetch the milk with me dad . |
| 16 | Often we would design something specially ; if someone rang and asked if we had a Mexican outfit for a feature on Mexican clothes we 'd say ‘ yes ’ and within a day have a sample made up which fitted in with a Mexican look . ’ |
| 17 | And in fact we said that we would be able to start it on the , at the beginning of May , even though we knew we would n't , we thought we 'd say that |
| 18 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd sit around in the evening , Dad in his chair , he had the comfortable one , and we 'd say to him , tell us about Disneyland , and he 'd chew on his pipe and be all embarrassed and smile , and we felt like a family . |
| 20 | One of the common differences between East and West is the words like table and table in West we 'd say table and East they 'd say table . |
| 21 | Up and up and er in Harray we 'd say , wee that 's just for us you know , we . |
| 22 | Yes , yes yeah , I mean , I think if I if I were to say to you , shall we sing the National Anthem , we 'd say , oh no , no , no . |
| 23 | We were straight in there ringing people , you know have you got any problems , listening you know to this and that , and the next morning we were in ringing , and Jack would ring in , and we 'd say , look at know you 're at Gateshead , but can you go to Newton Aycliffe ? |
| 24 | Erm because of having to do everything as much as we can the medieval way , if we were ordinary people and we said we wanted to tile we 'd say , oh well we 'll go out and buy some tiles . |
| 25 | Lastly , I would simply say that for weeks before the war was over , General whom I would like to call your attention to , was an Operations Officer and during the night when we were laying on missions we 'd say to each other , when this thing 's over we 're gon na get stinking drunk . |
| 26 | These are the sort of things we 'd say to a good person in a formal situation , erm , you 're reliable , trustworthy , you know , we can rely on you to do a good job for us , doing your job well and with enthusiasm , when left in charge there 's been no problems , you 're responsible and flexible , you 're conscientious , I can trust you for , to do a good job and thank you for your contribution to the team . |
| 27 | But once I think we were , we were going in a mad rush er , each saw his responsibilities for that word , and that 'll do , and then we 'd say yes , and stuck it here . |
| 28 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 29 | This is intuitively what we would expect and we would say that it was due to a lack of sleep . |
| 30 | In our defence we would say that the state 's water supplies are still only around half of what is normal at this time of year , and that many Californians , currently refilling their swimming pools and reflooding their orange groves , may live to regret it . |