Example sentences of "we 'd [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You see well the point was when you pick 'em up erm we had a sm we had a big boat , what we called hanger boat , a very heavy boat and that used to have a wooden so therefore we used to pull it up by hand and pull it ove on a little barrel with a hand power that 's what we used to do and once we got the anchor in board we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then rerun it again right on to the mud and on the anchor again .
2 Pull it in to the small boat , lay it on a box and then we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then we 'd rerun it further up the river .
3 With break for We 'd start we 'd do the cattle feed the cattle in the morning and then we were in for breakfast and then er be out then and er dinner then was usually about half past twelve and you started again on at two .
4 After leaving the station , we 'd just walk around for ten or fifteen minutes , doubling back on our tracks , heading in through the lobby of a big hotel and straight out again through the rear entrance , until finally we 'd come to some itty-bitty hotel in a back street with a desk in the hallway , and we 'd do the elevator routine .
5 I thought we 'd do the sling first , high sling because it 's very important to get it high and not pull it , everyone , anyone gets asked to do the high sling in their exam and if you can put a good high sling on you 're halfway to passing
6 And we 'd do the maintenance and watering instead of just selling the plants , which would give us a nice steady income .
7 Er well I left the stuffing cos I , I did n't think I 'd left it in long enough , I put it in a bit late and I thought we 'd leave the stuffing .
8 Yeah we divided them all up , but if me or Jan needed to refer to anything we 'd recognize the information that we 've put on the envelopes quicker than we 'll recognize the stuff that he 's put in there
9 I mean it 's a case of of what time we 'd make the journey is n't it ?
10 Well we we we 'd want the controls on the left and we want them to be split .
11 ‘ I 'm not sure we 'd want the police around .
12 And we 'd light the fire and go run any errands , and wait till her son used to come home . ’
13 Together , every few weeks we 'd dismantle the rig and transport it in sections a few hundred miles through swamps and desert and forest .
14 And Miss P told him that if ever any man tried to mess him about or to make him do things he did n't want to do then he should come right back to The Bar and tell us , and we 'd sort the man out for him .
15 So overall we 'd regard the festival as a great success . ’
16 ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club .
17 I and other girls and women , we 'd work the Dhenki , husking the rice , or sometimes we 'd go to the fields carrying tobacco and food for my brothers-in-law and cousins who were working there .
18 We 'd take the cheque as well though .
19 So we told him that we were n't interested in tonight 's gig and that we 'd take the money and go now .
20 ‘ Our trading operation is run on it globally , and sometimes our market data and its back-up facility are run over it too : if Reuters went down in London we 'd re-broadcast the information out of New York to London .
21 When the inspectors left , we 'd call him in and we 'd put the stuff back in the shelf .
22 He had left the Phillips screwdriver in the spare room after we 'd put the lid on .
23 A squadron of them moving four abreast in perfect formation , frightened because we 'd put the light on , scampering around trying to jump over the bed and the settee .
24 I mean , with the middle bit , we 'd put the record on and get off stage so there was never any doubt that we were playing live when we were on stage .
25 ‘ I just remembered — we promised Anna we 'd see the piazza by moonlight . ’
26 We 'd get the day 's batch of informants from Lebanon , picked up in Larnaca off the morning ferry .
27 After we 've got We said we 'd get the appraisal system up and running did n't we .
28 And I had hoped we 'd get the information , have we got any information on that ?
29 We were well on top by then , but he still expected something to go wrong — he bet his Rolls that we 'd lose the title .
30 I thought of making soup with these , but we 'd lose the delicacy of the flavour . ’
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