Example sentences of "we 'd [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’ |
| 2 | The Hairflair stand attracted thousands of hair enthusiasts , all eager to see the January issue which we 'd printed especially early for the show . |
| 3 | Oh I should say we 'd lived there ten years . |
| 4 | We 'd lived there three years , decorated it and everything and then bang we 're out on the streets . |
| 5 | I liked going to the Youth Club or the pictures with him , or staying in and watching telly in his new flat , but we 'd grown apart . |
| 6 | You know if we 'd defended properly first half we would have won the game today . |
| 7 | See , we 'd given away all our oil , so we did n't need any barrels , and they were aware that the oil was a storage problem . |
| 8 | We guessed that this was the same set we 'd seen long ago on the journey from the Scullery when Abed had wanted to stop us reading them . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd seen so many terrible pictures on TV and when we arrived in the country I wondered if it was all true . |
| 10 | We 'd heard there was a way into the Goughdale Mine somewhere on the slopes of Big Allen . |
| 11 | And it made everybody was getting shifted down to , so I did n't fancy working down there , we 'd heard that much about it so that 's when I left and went to Walkers . |
| 12 | The encouraging rapprochement between Tehran and London that we 'd heard so much about the previous year was at an end . |
| 13 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 14 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
| 15 | We 'd played fairly steady , and as we went to the 11th tee I automatically reached for the driver . |
| 16 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 17 | So er says right , I 'll see you later , and just as we 'd gone away Joke got back out the car er , and she says do n't worry about the money . |
| 18 | Before we 'd gone far from the hut we had lost one of the Germans with sickness , and an hour later the Dutchman had to turn back when he had trouble with his crampons . |
| 19 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 20 | I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time . |
| 21 | ‘ We were asking people what we 'd done wrong down there . |
| 22 | and yeah we did forget the first paragraph of the of what we had learned so we just covered what we 'd done really |
| 23 | Alan Strachan seemed genuinely pleased with the work we 'd done so far . |
| 24 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 25 | ‘ John felt we 'd done enough . ’ |
| 26 | And er we 'd done quite a l we 'd he 'd refurnished his who Th You know they got the contract to furnish the whole house and it was beautiful you know . |
| 27 | We 'd thought perhaps this time next year . ’ |
| 28 | It was n't as big a hit , but we 'd shown more about the scope of what they could do . ’ |
| 29 | Again , Oh we 'd graduated then from pencils and paper , to pen and ink and paper , the ink being in er a well sunk in the desk in front of us . |
| 30 | I 'd no idea we 'd taken so long . ’ |