Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you have a few names , ask for estimates , but be sure to explain exactly what you want when it comes to details not included on the plans , such as the pattern of Artex on the ceiling , or the style of the doors , or perhaps you 'd like hardwood stairs . |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps you 'd rather finish the book and then come ? ’ |
| 3 | Or perhaps you 'd find being hounded into the ground by an amateur detective positively rib-splitting ! ’ |
| 4 | and then he asked me then and erm , he did n't know whether to ask me or not , well he knew , he knew more or less I 'd say yes anyway , cos I more , I 'd already said yes , but not to his face , so but he did n't know whether to because Henry fancied me |
| 5 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 6 | The only certainty , she reflected ruefully , soaking in fragrant warm water up to her chin , was that in half an hour or so she 'd have to find the courage to face Roman again , possibly over the breakfast-table . |
| 7 | Every three months or so I 'd clear it of all the wonder remedies he 'd accumulated , but within a week he 'd have discovered some other miracle medicine . |
| 8 | " Every week or so I 'd see them come in for their beef ration . |
| 9 | Sooner or later she 'd end up drifting innocently around the bins . |
| 10 | She kept trying to trample them , slam the door , but he kept kicking it back open and sooner or later she 'd have to put a name to her feelings , and she was afraid , so afraid , that the name was love … but it must n't be , she thought savagely ; it ca n't be . |
| 11 | But I certainly remember going to Mr and erm , I felt very bold when I went and said that er , you know , sooner or later I 'd erm , I 'd get married and er set up a home and that sort of thing and erm I said er , what are the prospects of erm getting a reasonable salary ? |
| 12 | But knowing Emily 's beginnings , as I say , she would n't allow any marriage , and I 've watched you and her , but I thought sooner or later you 'd see what she was like , and grow tired . |
| 13 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 14 | Sometimes they 'd fuck right away , or sometimes they 'd wait till they were about to leave , but they 'd always do it on the sheet , the same sheet he 'd brought that first time , as if , without it , some spell might be broken and everything would fall apart . |
| 15 | I and other girls and women , we 'd work the Dhenki , husking the rice , or sometimes we 'd go to the fields carrying tobacco and food for my brothers-in-law and cousins who were working there . |
| 16 | If ever I was asked what Nigel ‘ did ’ , I would reply that he was a designer , or sometimes I 'd say an inventor , but he always spoke of himself as an engineer . |
| 17 | A chocolate bar or an ice-cream , or sometimes he 'd just take them for a walk . |
| 18 | Or maybe he 'd deliberately keep it on , as the endearing-eccen-tricity of a senior major . |
| 19 | Or maybe you 'd like to watch the boat coming alongside ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Or maybe you 'd prefer to be invigorated by another stalemate argument with me on the subject . ’ |
| 21 | Or maybe you 'd prefer stars of cinemas silent era , the languid Ivor Novello , singer Bebe Daniels , or the vamp , Gloria Swanson . |
| 22 | Once or twice he 'd — well he 'd tried to make some sort of advances to her . |
| 23 | Or then you 'd do like the four , four , four flares |
| 24 | If you did n't do this , they reckoned the bees would n't stay , they 'd leave the hives — or else they 'd pine away and die . ’ |
| 25 | You hardly had room enough to do your job , but you dare n't tell 'em to get out o' the way ; or else they 'd say they 'd as much right to be there as you had ! |
| 26 | else , or else they 'd never do it properly would they ? |
| 27 | But he must come soon , or else she 'd have to go back in , for her mother might wake and sense her absence and go in and check . |
| 28 | The sa the same applies for pricing virtually to anything else if if you 're going to take the maximum advantage of flying by air you either have to book it well in advance through a package or whatever or whatever or else you 'd have to go along and sit in a bucket shop hoping that somebody 's gon na |
| 29 | Or else he 'd catch him shoplifting books , or catch Gina down the supermarket . |
| 30 | He could n't ever have met him or else he 'd have recognised the calibre of the victim he had selected . |