Example sentences of "we [vb past] we 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , we fought we 'd better see if 'e 'd pinched anyfing , ’ said Linda . |
| 2 | ‘ The album was going to be called NO BOLLOCKS ! , ’ laughs Cris Bonacci , ‘ but in the end we decided to call it simply Girlschool , because we realised we 'd never used the name of the band as a title before … ’ |
| 3 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 4 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 5 | We did n't report them to the authorities , or anything like , we knew we 'd we 'd earned them . |
| 6 | But oh we we 'd we 'd a lot of good fiddlers in those days and a girl at the piano . |
| 7 | We 'd we 'd to clear out . |
| 8 | But we you know , one was one would be boiling the the white metal , we 'd we 'd fixed on the and er one would be boiling and pouring the stuff and the other cutting y you know breaking up the the mould sort of thing and piling the stuff out and as fast as we were piling them up , some beggar was creeping in and stealing them . |
| 9 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 10 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 11 | When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we 'd better go now ! |
| 12 | Upon being introduced by the special needs coordinator as the new tutor to a group of students with severe learning difficulties , I heard several groans of ‘ Oh no , we thought we 'd got rid of you … ’ . |
| 13 | In the 1980s , we thought we 'd found salvation to our problems in artificial intelligence and expert systems . |
| 14 | So when you showed us you did n't want to hear about your mother , we thought — well , we thought we 'd better go along with you . |
| 15 | ‘ We thought we 'd solved the problem when we introduced the Corporate Wardrobe in 1988 , ’ said Bob , ‘ but unfortunately , it did n't work . |
| 16 | We thought we 'd made it clear that it was only the MPC ( Multimedia PC ) versions of either card ( that is the SoundBlaster Pro and the Adlib Gold ) gave access to both MID and WAV file playing . |
| 17 | We thought … we thought we 'd lost you . |
| 18 | ‘ We thought we 'd denied the wolves a good meal . |
| 19 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 20 | Right , no it it 's all right to stuff the elephant , but but we thought we 'd better not stop the human being as well . |
| 21 | we thought we 'd er |
| 22 | But at the moment he 's well he 's not come back to us with any answer from our offer at all so we 're we 're presuming that means no so we thought we 'd better start looking . |
| 23 | Well we thought we 'd better get looking . |
| 24 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 25 | we 've both got a week off , and we thought we 'd all can go just for a couple of days |
| 26 | We thought yo , we thought we 'd got |
| 27 | I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out . |
| 28 | But in the end we felt we 'd seen enough of logging and gum-digging . |
| 29 | We did n't report them to the authorities , or anything like , we knew we 'd we 'd earned them . |
| 30 | Erm but Sunday afternoon we said we 'd |