Example sentences of "we thought we 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We usually bring our own food and eat it in the park , ’ Tom said , ‘ but today we thought we 'd eat a proper meal in a cafe with you . ’ |
| 2 | We decided to move the chairs out to make more room , but the acceptances kept coming in so we thought we 'd open the French windows and pray for a sunny day . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So , ’ Alyssia joined in , ‘ we thought we 'd drop by and let you know that everything worked out in the end . |
| 4 | So we thought we 'd riffle through the rails of leading dancewear manufacturers to find something a shade more exciting than saggy tracksuit bottoms . |
| 5 | We thought we 'd give him some work this time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He said , ‘ let's try my method , you 've had the SMG , now try going to the top person and everything will be OK , ’ ' says Ramesh K. ‘ After the amount of hassle we 'd had , we thought we 'd give it a go . ’ |
| 7 | What with the Santa Cruz Operation 's new president Lars Turndal being the new kid on the block and a stranger to most of the people who 'll have to deal with him , we thought we 'd give a little of his background . |
| 8 | So we thought we 'd walk to the next stop , and then we see this bag on the floor . |
| 9 | Steve Brown 's name came up , and we thought we 'd do one track with him , but we got on great , which solved that problem . |
| 10 | Oh yes we saw the the news reports found them rather disturbing erm we thought we 'd do something to help and decided on a fashion show . |
| 11 | We 've got two children at the swimming club here , so we thought we 'd do this while we wait for them . |
| 12 | We thought we 'd go and help ! |
| 13 | ‘ We thought we 'd go ahead anyway . ’ |
| 14 | We thought we 'd set an example . |
| 15 | We thought we 'd start with an interesting topic ! |
| 16 | They were the years in which we began to grow up ; in which we started to discover who it was we thought we 'd like to be ; in which our earliest ( and therefore longest-lasting ) preferences in love , music , pleasure were formed . |
| 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 | So with summer holiday time coming up we thought we 'd help the late planners among you with a few ideas on great areas to go walking . |
| 19 | We thought we 'd ask your opinion . |
| 20 | we thought we 'd try it out . |
| 21 | So , we thought we 'd find out what young people want to know , and what they think of the education they 've had . |
| 22 | We thought we 'd run over to Low Riding and make sure Mike was all right . |
| 23 | We thought we 'd have a nice family evening in front of the television . ’ |
| 24 | We thought we 'd have an opportunity at subsequent meetings but , as I 've said , it was to be the only time that we all met together . ’ |
| 25 | But in this programme you 'll appreciate this planned months , its planned , when did I first contact you ? , oh February was n't it , right , so we thought we 'd have pictures here and Sue would be talking in front of the pictures . |
| 26 | ’ We wrote the single after moving into a little village and seeing all the people driving to their office jobs and we thought we 'd have a go at them ’ |
| 27 | Oh very good , yes , aha , so er Jim 's been very busy with his talks and different things and er we packed in , you know , after Christmas cos we both worked and we thought we 'd have it , you know , and we caught this flu bug and |
| 28 | Whilst we were at it , we thought we 'd strip the floor and varnish it . |
| 29 | but we thought well we 're going up the grave and it 's not exactly out the way so we thought we 'd pop in . |
| 30 | ‘ We could do the quickstep and the waltz but we thought we 'd join to learn the more complicated dances like the tango and the slow foxtrot , ’ Anne told Joe . |