Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day she went to her favourite place , a beach a couple of hours from the city , and realized she 'd become a stressed-out workaholic . |
| 2 | ‘ If you were n't already so bruised and battered I 'd turn you over my knee and make sure you had nothing to laugh about . ’ |
| 3 | And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I 'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up , and look across the gardens , lawns , greenhouses , sheds and curtained windows . |
| 4 | Tree surgeon , Jim Unwin , took one look at this ancient yew in Staunton churchyard and realised he 'd have to act fast . |
| 5 | Anyway , before anyone from the crew of the boat could get ashore they saw two uniformed constables come down , and reckoned they 'd leave them to it . |
| 6 | Must have seen his name in the paper and reckoned he 'd pay over the odds to get it back today . ’ |
| 7 | We 've talked about it and decided we 'd move in here , in Tom 's cottage . |
| 8 | She suddenly started screeching at Bruno , so abruptly that Maxim felt a jab in his spine and knew he 'd come very close to being shot . |
| 9 | Said a friend : ‘ It was two in the morning , we were drunk as hell and thought we 'd do a bit of shooting for a laugh . |
| 10 | I dreaded seeing him , and thought I 'd go out for the evening , but then I realized there was no point in that , it was only putting off the inevitable . |
| 11 | I hoped I 'd have a chance to call in on your aunt some time today , and thought I 'd ring from Downshurst to ask if it would be convenient . |
| 12 | I recognized Billy Tuckett from way back and thought I 'd save you guys some time by giving you his name . |
| 13 | For Travis called at Leith 's and Sebastian 's flat a few nights later — ‘ Just passing and thought I 'd pop in , ’ so he said , which fooled nobody . |
| 14 | As the two women shook hands Didi added , ‘ I heard voices and thought I 'd pop in to say hello . ’ |
| 15 | So you got my note crying off and thought you 'd come and try to change my mind ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I looked down and thought he 'd let me fall too . ’ |
| 17 | Parisian designer Jacques Rougerie obviously got rather tired of his new project — designing a Seine riverbus — and thought he 'd have a lie-down instead . |
| 18 | He remembers telling his wife he was tired of working with ‘ old guys ’ and thought he 'd try a ‘ new kid . |
| 19 | Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he 'd try his luck . |
| 20 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 21 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the people I talked to was a salesman for Allied Dunbar and said they 'd do a great job . |
| 23 | She told how the police and social workers came into her house , and said they 'd come to remove the children . |
| 24 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 25 | ‘ When we asked her if she was going to marry Peter she just smiled and said we 'd have to wait and see . |
| 26 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 27 | Erm the forecast figure is our plan of getting to the end result , which is not the same thing , which is in a way it 's a bit like our overtime hours and some of the areas we said that we would spend X amount of hours in , in two months , we 've had to then change the shape of that and said we 'd have half of X over five months , so our forecast i is being done differently , cos they 've worked out the , the branch forecast quite significantly differently erm Jeremy went through , through most of th briefly most of the means of doing that this morning and it sounds a lot more sensible than what they 've done in the past . |
| 28 | Not as such so they 're pressing for an answer , the factory , but erm , he came back and said we 'd need firm prices , per kilo price , lump sum price not acceptable , customer offer of sixteen Deutschmark per kilo from , for twelve to fourteen with delivery , your request for those credit verified five months not acceptable , you offer to deliver in eight weeks in which case and we 'd get till twelve weeks , please confirm . |
| 29 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
| 30 | I explained about Maureen calling round to collect and said she 'd bring the cash . |