Example sentences of "to [pron] i 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 2 | left to me I 'd take all curtains down |
| 3 | He stopped as he heard her gasp , then went on steadily , ‘ But I have a question to which I 'd like to know the answer . |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd known why it mattered so much to you I 'd have tried harder to make you accept the truth , ’ she said , yielding to her own regrets for a moment . |
| 5 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 6 | Left to myself I 'd leave it there two maybe three days , pick up an envelope now and then and try to guess who sent it . |
| 7 | The basic overdrive was there , but unless shielded in a mix the distortion sounds needed some tweaking to get close to what I 'd call a ‘ real ’ distorted guitar sound . |
| 8 | But I had the amp set with the treble full on , the presence full on and the bright switch kicked in before I could get close to what I 'd call a classically nasty Telecaster bridge pickup tone . |
| 9 | There are limits to what I 'd dare and |