Example sentences of "[coord] then he 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire . |
| 2 | ‘ I liked the way that , we 'd be on the bandstand playing and he 'd just be walking around and playing and just look at you and kind of tip his head , you 'd play and then he 'd start playing when he wanted you to stop ! |
| 3 | As soon as the boss was stirring he 'd get his mug of beer ; and then he 'd start his lining , and not before . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I bring you hell fire , ’ he was shouting , and then he 'd set fire to his fucking head ! |
| 5 | He watched George going into MacDougalls , let him settle down for three minutes and then he 'd strike . |
| 6 | Yeah , he really did , and the record would end , and then he 'd plonk back . |
| 7 | I mean slap not just sideways with his hand and then he 'd give you the strap after that . |
| 8 | ‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus . |
| 9 | ( 10 ) He would concoct anecdotes and then he 'd tell them to me over and over again , you know , obviously not realizing that he 'd told them to me before . |
| 10 | The Princess had spotlights , he 'd turn them around this way when it was time to get Sandy to the door and then he 'd go back on his own to switch them off . |
| 11 | He would wait a few more minutes and then he 'd go . |
| 12 | ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’ |
| 13 | He 'd sing until he got tired and he 'd start playing guitar and then he 'd do that until he got tired and then he 'd sing again ! |
| 14 | That would give him a week 's grace at least , and then he 'd do the same thing again in some other place to stay untraceable . |
| 15 | After supper Uncle Bill would put me , as he always did , in the big double bed in the room next the kitchen , and then he 'd leave the door open , and I 'd lie and listen to him and Bernard yarning , wondering how soon it would be before they got into bed , one on either side of me . |
| 16 | Aye and then he 'd leave . |
| 17 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |
| 18 | And then he 'd bring that home , you see ? |
| 19 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |
| 20 | He 'd chain-smoke a couple of Merits while we chatted about what had happened since our last meeting and then he 'd hand me over to the guy in the room next door for a routine polygraph . |
| 21 | And then he 'd harness them , all except the bridle . |
| 22 | And then he 'd carve and he 'd pass round all the plates . |
| 23 | And then he 'd suggest hide-and-seek . |
| 24 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 25 | Er I 've known er one bloke he , he 'd send for a pint of Shipstons beer when it was sixpence a pint , and then he 'd send for another pint and he 'd be drunk , or , or he 'd be ready f to fight anybody that wanted to fight him . |
| 26 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 27 | Bolt upright , yes , fast asleep and then he 'd move his hands |
| 28 | He 'd sing until he got tired and he 'd start playing guitar and then he 'd do that until he got tired and then he 'd sing again ! |
| 29 | And then he 'd meet the boys and want to play football — he was mad about rugby football , he would play with a tin can if there was nothing else . |
| 30 | And then he 'd get up at two in the morning and start painting . |