Example sentences of "we 'd [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we 'd cleared the shop out and put the stuff in the fridge , I used to all , scrub all round all the ta you know , the shelves round the sides and clean the scale down and the bacon machine and I used to scrape the block with a proper scraper . |
| 2 | ‘ After Munich I thought we 'd saved the day . |
| 3 | When we 'd checked the recording we 'd heard Sinatra singing ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 4 | What else is there to do in Kimblesworth , we 'd asked the taxi driver on the way from Durham railway station ? |
| 5 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 6 | We talked a bit more , about when we 'd heard the news , and so forth . |
| 7 | I was beginning to think that we 'd missed the boat , even though we knew in our heart of hearts that the Lord wanted us in some form of full-time capacity . |
| 8 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 9 | I go along with that one , and we 'd commandeered the scullery back of the kitchen to pollute our bodies with addictive anti-stress-related poison . |
| 10 | If we 'd blown the network because of the hostages we would have left ourselves blind in the middle of a minefield . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd done the Exhilarator course in the evening but we had n't found anything — except that Cawthorne does n't like women much , and blacks not at all . ’ |
| 12 | We even had a hot line set up between the reception at London Weekend and Number 10 , and a call did come through , but thankfully it was after we 'd done the show , when she was having a drink in the hospitality room . |
| 13 | And we sort of walked round the town and back to where we 'd parked the car and there were there were places you know , pubs and cafes which are |
| 14 | In the ground it was , as Strach said , as if we 'd won the cup or something . |
| 15 | What a relief we 'd won the war . |
| 16 | These young London detectives would come out with us for a meal , after we 'd finished the court-work , go down to several famous pubs , and order several drinks . |
| 17 | We 'd finished the LP in November and were pretty frustrated about that not coming out . |
| 18 | We 'd borrowed the car from Biland 's mechanic and had to promise not to let Simon drive it . |
| 19 | And all this before we 'd opened the fridge . |
| 20 | And er I wrote to the No we 'd taken the decision at the Portobello branch th that Sunday that we support When we supported the executive decision , the strike for our just demand you see . |
| 21 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 22 | I miss your mother , I really do — we had our differences but we 'd got the measure of each other , as you might say . |
| 23 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
| 24 | Certainly er by then perhaps I forgot to mention as we went through the front door my weapon was already out of the holster and by the time we 'd got the bedroom door my weapon would already have been under er my eye level , hence literally aiming the weapon and from there the gun was out , my arm was out , whether I still had hold of P C I I ca n't recall . |
| 25 | Said there was no need for a recce seein' as how we 'd attacked the Windmill over there every afternoon this week . ’ |
| 26 | After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London . |
| 27 | The cut where the wing had been severed was quite clean , and the blood had dried up , so she concluded that the poor bird must have flown through some overhead wires in the vicinity during the severe gales we 'd had the night before . |
| 28 | If we 'd had the confidence and belief in our finishing that we had in our general play , we would have been 2–0 up at half-time . ’ |
| 29 | we 'd had the collection and then it was all choruses and then it was oh where were we , he 'd , then he 'd forgotten his glasses , could n't find his glasses , what page were we |
| 30 | I 'm glad you 've made reference actually to that picture of the circles because I , I erm I came up with that after we 'd had the parish day and i you know , observing who was there on the parish day and then trying to see how , how we reach people and , and , and who were missing and how important was it that everybody should be there on parish day , and was n't it that people who are involved should be there on parish day because that 's a point at which erm you know parish council can meet those very people . |