Example sentences of "[noun] and they 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 2 | The way it worked was they 'd give him 70 quid for a gram and they 'd sell it in fiver or tenner bags . |
| 3 | Direct , the same as erm fertiliser coming in , a lot of lorries would come down there and get the fertiliser , different say merchants , different farmers , they used to go through the agent and they 'd buy so much off the agent , this different fertiliser if could n't supply it , what they wanted . |
| 4 | It 's no crime and they 'd have known anyway , but you might as well hold on to your dignity if you can . |
| 5 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 6 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 7 | we were lucky to get this because chap er wanted to get out into a house really and he had one offer er from down south and they 'd put in and looked and they er and they sort of bo had n't followed it up , so |
| 8 | Oh yes , I used to be known in , in , in , in my area as the kitchen man , you know , and sort of , people used to talk in the pubs and they 'd say , oh well you know , my missus wants a new kitchen . |
| 9 | They were testing our responses and they 'd have been disappointed if we had n't been there . |
| 10 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 11 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 12 | ‘ The doctor said I 'd get sores and they 'd hurt . |
| 13 | I mean I know in my time when I was a crane driver if they , if one of them did n't turn up dow down at Cliff Quay they 'd come along to a crane driver and they 'd say , take a rope for us will you . |
| 14 | He 'd be there himself except that the newsroom was on sodding tenterhooks waiting to see if Heath would call a sodding snap election and they 'd have to bring out a sodding slip edition . |
| 15 | There was some people round here that were selling gear that were n't smack'eads and they 'd do you a lay on without any rings or surety or nothing and you 'd say , well , ‘ Lay us on half a gram and I 'll sell it , like ’ , and they 'd say , ‘ Alright ’ , and then you 'd go back a coupla days later and say , ‘ Look . |
| 16 | But they 'd had men dragging those stinking waters for twenty-four hours and they 'd come up with nothing . |
| 17 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 18 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 19 | ‘ She desperately wanted to play the wife role and would spend an afternoon cooking a beautiful meal for him and he would arrive with an expensive bottle of wine and they 'd settle down for a cosy evening . ’ |
| 20 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 21 | And he 'd be walking all over the place seen anywhere , Tommy on the wall and they 'd shout Tommy on the wall |
| 22 | Another day and they 'd have been as dead as doornails . |
| 23 | there 's a system there with a , a bone , every time you move that you 'd move a bone and they 'd go down |
| 24 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 25 | a box on their back and they 'd open |
| 26 | So if anybody does patchwork knitting or makes blankets or anything for charity and they 'd like to give me a ring any time , I could give you the pattern . |
| 27 | He was given four options : default and risk losing his good name ; pay everything immediately ; make six monthly payments of $400 and they 'd call it quits ; send in $70 and they 'd get back to him later . |
| 28 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 29 | He was given four options : default and risk losing his good name ; pay everything immediately ; make six monthly payments of $400 and they 'd call it quits ; send in $70 and they 'd get back to him later . |
| 30 | Yes , I was very successful in that respect as well that er , my children , I taught them that just to wait till the January sales and they 'd get what they wanted for half the price ! |