Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [verb] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possible , but if I was a BNP yob I 'd think he was taking the piss and would throw something , and if I was n't , I might throw something anyway because nationalism stinks — keep those ‘ Ethnic Cleansing ’ concentration camps in your mind . |
| 2 | I 'd think he was a man who women were probably tempted to mother . ’ |
| 3 | If I did n't know better I 'd think he was trying to be as diplomatic possible in order to keep himself in line for the England job . |
| 4 | ‘ On returning , I mentioned to Ronnie that if I did n't know better — having miscarried only five weeks before — I 'd think I was pregnant , ’ remembers Allison . |
| 5 | As changeable , I 'd think it was a swizzle . |
| 6 | ‘ And if I saw it on , say , Julia Roberts or Demi Moore in a film I 'd think it was wonderful , but it 's not me . |
| 7 | I 'd think it was comfortable to wear . |
| 8 | If I did n't know better I 'd think there was a man on the horizon . ’ |
| 9 | If a woman was n't paranoid I 'd think there was something wrong with her . |
| 10 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 11 | I 'd guess it was a man who did that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And , ’ I went on , ‘ I 'd assume it was the person who killed Angela Brickell who wanted to fix the blame for ever on Harry by making him disappear , only … ’ |
| 13 | If a horse did that , I 'd know he was a bad 'un . ’ |
| 14 | Even if we had n't seen each other for ages and ages , I 'd know he was still fond of me because I 'm his sister . |
| 15 | In January 1916 , six months before he met O'Keeffe , 3 Stieglitz saw examples of the charcoal drawings she had made the previous autumn and exclaimed : ‘ Why they 're genuinely fine things — You say a woman did these — She 's an unusual woman — She 's broad-minded , she 's bigger than most women , but she 's got the sensitive emotion — I 'd know she was a woman — Look at that line . ’ |
| 16 | She 'd sniffle and nestle closer and even with the peculiar haircut I 'd know she was n't any boy . |
| 17 | If I walked across his unmarked grave , I 'd know it was him buried under the ground . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If I know you I 'd warrant he was given his money 's worth , ’ McQuaid laughed gently and when Moran did n't answer he added , ‘ The young will have their way , Michael . |
| 19 | From what he let drop I 'd say she was on at him morning , noon and night . |
| 20 | I 'd say it was an attempt to confirm Harry 's guilt that went disastrously wrong , leaving you with bristling new doubts and a whole lot more to investigate . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd say it was a 50–50 reaction . |
| 22 | I 'd say it was a dog but it 's very , very old and that 's as much as I can tell . |
| 23 | So within that context , I 'd say it was a good thing , ’ says Linda Williams , a feminist and film professor at the University of California in Irvine . |
| 24 | As far as pure simple enjoyment goes , I 'd say it was an expedition to a mountain called Shivling which Jim Fotheringham and I climbed in 1983 . |
| 25 | If I believed in anything , I 'd say it was part of a divine plan . ’ |
| 26 | It er you were taught , and er I ju I 'd say it was as liberal a education as you get now , but you 'd got to get your maths , you 'd got to English , you 'd got to get a language , you 'd got to get a science , and |
| 27 | When I bought something I 'd say it was less than it really was . |
| 28 | I took it when I examined the body and , taken with the rigor which was almost fully established then , I 'd say it was unlikely that he was alive much after nine p.m . |
| 29 | " That 's not altogether unknown , of course , but in this case I 'd say it was highly unlikely , virtually impossible . |
| 30 | If you were just a lodger , coming and going in your own way , I 'd say it was none of my business . ’ |