Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pron] 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother said I should never cut my hair or I 'd lose my strength , like Samson in the Bible . ’ |
| 2 | Crawford recalled of Lennon , ‘ He 'd come in and sit cross-legged on the bed with his guitar or we 'd take his Rolls to the beach . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd like you to take a sponge and I 'd like you to clean the paintwork on the stairs . |
| 5 | Pass any bakery and you 'd see cakes slathered in blue icing , cakes sprinkled with sea-salt . |
| 6 | ‘ The Turks have the highest regard for English football and I 'd love to have the chance of playing against them but I do n't expect I 'll get it . |
| 7 | Erm with whitewash not with er emulsion , that was too expensive , they 'd buy a packet of a packet of which would make so many gallons of whitewash and you 'd whitewash the ceiling . |
| 8 | I used to go back home via the local Underground and I 'd take six of our Irish doormen with me , all of them six foot three , and they 'd take the rollers from the roller towels in the Gents and they 'd stand around me , and we would go out in a ‘ flying wedge ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , that , ’ said William , as if it had completely slipped his mind and he 'd have been quite happy talking about Satan and Hell and related matters for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 10 | No it was er it was er oh how can I say er I used me head and er , if you follow what I mean , and imagination and er I could envisage what , perhaps , people wanted , it was in my own mind and I 'd make it up some way or another . |
| 11 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 12 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 13 | The way it worked was they 'd give him 70 quid for a gram and they 'd sell it in fiver or tenner bags . |
| 14 | Direct , the same as erm fertiliser coming in , a lot of lorries would come down there and get the fertiliser , different say merchants , different farmers , they used to go through the agent and they 'd buy so much off the agent , this different fertiliser if could n't supply it , what they wanted . |
| 15 | So then , I 'd have another piece and he 'd trot off and he 'd run again by the shed ! |
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| 17 | So someone would come and clean his car and he 'd give it to them , yet you would work your guts out for a fairly modest salary … |
| 18 | They could put the hook in there and they could lower doors away so there 's no need for the , cos many a time in the dumb hopper when you knock that pin out , they go down with the force and it 'd break and it 'd break the er the chain , the chain link . |
| 19 | It 's no crime and they 'd have known anyway , but you might as well hold on to your dignity if you can . |
| 20 | no the gourmet like detective yeah and they come in and they go God that was a tough crime and he 'd go after a crime I like something to eat and then he goes into the kitchen and he 's going |
| 21 | The tax man does n't allow you to stop , he 's a gangster and I 'd fight every four or five weeks if I could , ’ he said . |
| 22 | There would have been no action and there 'd have been a nice plan on the table and I sincerely believe that but for general management we would have lost the opportunity to ( a ) have got the money , and ( b ) got the clinic built before people could actually realise what was happening and there 's been other instances of that . |
| 23 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 24 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 25 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 26 | I mean I bought one or two pair of clogs when I was on the dredger and we 'd take the iro iron piece off underneath , that 's just like a , a shoe what a horse have , like go round the |
| 27 | I mean , it 's not a boring programme but you 'd find it boring , believe me . |
| 28 | She 'd spread my business all round the neighbourhood but she 'd lend a hand without grudging it . ’ |
| 29 | As Frank was talking his arm had gone round May 's shoulder and he was hugging her to him , and of a sudden Peggy felt she must get away from this family scene or she 'd burst out crying . |
| 30 | Thank God you got some expert help or we 'd have been hearing duck screams in our nightmares forever . ’ |