Example sentences of "you 'd [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 You 'd feel you had n't made the best use of your time here .
2 But you do n't like to because of the fact you know he 'll be erm sort of lugging it around and you 'd feel you 'd actually have to sort of hurry him up would n't you ?
3 and you 'd feel you 'd actually have to sort of hurry him up would n't you , you know hurry up because
4 If you knew what we know , you 'd realise we had to take the action we did . ’
5 If you knew anything about me , Mr Bryce , ’ she bristled , ‘ you 'd realise your request is both unnecessary and offensive .
6 You 've got it made if only you 'd realise it . ’
7 ‘ I just wish you 'd pull yourself together , ’ she said half despairingly .
8 You 'd see two fellows fighting in the street — you 'd pull them up and send them on their way .
9 You would drop them , bang them , let the rain dampen them , but every night you 'd pull them through and oil them , then every time you squeezed the trigger the boring old things would fin .
10 Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before .
11 ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’
12 She looked vaguely at it and then said , ‘ I thought you 'd set it for home . ’
13 You 'd set it up and like they 'd choose someone else or something .
14 You 'd dock my pay soon enough if I did n't do everything you and Matey ordered me to do in my waking hours . ’
15 Now then , so you 'd carpet them two
16 ‘ You said you 'd forget what just happened .
17 " If you had any sense you 'd forget him , but eat your heart out if you want to .
18 PS I told Nero you 'd meet him at Dover but I should leave your chariot behind he might not understand if you cut him in two , he 's funny that way .
19 ‘ I said you 'd meet him at the car in ten minutes . ’
20 ‘ I thought the idea was that you 'd meet him in public .
21 ‘ I had been wondering whether you 'd change your mind and live here permanently . ’
22 ‘ You do n't mean you 'd change your faith ? ’
23 ‘ Of course you 'd change your mind about me if you really knew me — ’
24 But you 'd regret it in the long run , I think , would n't you ?
25 ‘ Unless , of course , you 'd prefer me to report to the Reichsführer that we lost this man because of your stupidity . ’
26 I 'm sure you 'd prefer her to work beside you . ’
27 ‘ It 's slightly sparkling so I thought you 'd prefer it . ’
28 ‘ Perhaps you 'd prefer it if I went even further , and fired her ? ’ he suggested softly .
29 You 'd prefer it not to be a Copt , would n't you ? ’
30 I wanted to wear my hair up in a knot but Elise said you 'd prefer it loose like this . ’
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