Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then send me back in tears — or I 'd break down |
| 2 | ‘ With the peak covering my eyes like this I have to hold my head back to see where I 'm going or I 'd break my neck . ’ |
| 3 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 4 | Or I 'd make sure he did n't for much longer . ’ |
| 5 | Or I 'd go to LA where David did his week 's show at the Universal Amphitheatre , which was the ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ show . |
| 6 | ‘ After she moved to the Villa Souleiado Philippe used to bring me the paintings to sign , or I 'd go there and do it . |
| 7 | If it was nice and cold or I 'd put it in the freezer , then open the other one . |
| 8 | I could n't stick it up at the back or I 'd look aged , haggard , forty years old . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just as well that mam 's here with us , is n't it , or I 'd have no honour , at least not in the eyes of the people around World 's End . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't realize how much , or I 'd have written to you . |
| 11 | " Thank God you did , or I 'd have cracked up and had even less money saved than I have now . " |
| 12 | I thought , I must get it cut — and then I remembered that I had no money to waste on that sort of thing any more ; it would just have to grow , or I 'd have to cut it myself . |
| 13 | I suspect they do n't think I 'd be identified by any of the witnesses or I 'd have been on an identity parade by now , but it just all looks so obvious : it must be me . |
| 14 | Or I 'd have been gone . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Thank goodness Miss Philimore 's not here , or I 'd have to explain this sudden run on roses . ’ |
| 16 | Leonard is n't orthodox , thank goodness , or I 'd have to shave off all my hair . |
| 17 | Obviously I 'd left the rabbits alone for too long , or I 'd have known about the existence of such a brute . |
| 18 | Or I 'd have called the police I think . |
| 19 | My mother said I should never cut my hair or I 'd lose my strength , like Samson in the Bible . ’ |
| 20 | Is it erm the national parks and greenbelt or I 'd like to understand what it means . |
| 21 | Either that or I 'd imagine |
| 22 | I mean if they really sort of tried to make a story out of it and they could n't , they contacted the council offices and everyone was on holiday or nobody 'd answer the phone or what normally happens at council offices , they 'd say ‘ Oh , well , sod this , ’ and they 'd go away and they 'd do the , you know , write it up in a really nasty way so |
| 23 | In Europe terrorist groups were bombing capitalist targets ; in London psychologists were saying you had to live your own life in your own way and not according to your family , or you 'd go mad . |
| 24 | Or you 'd go down the er out to Barton and down the side of Armand up and back again . |
| 25 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 26 | He had said to the clergyman that opportunity would n't knock , but you never knew and you definitely had to keep your spirits up or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 27 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 28 | And that 's true you know Lindsey 's far too old for her age or you 'd think she was o she er oh she was like Andrea |
| 29 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
| 30 | I know you say she 's very nice but she ca n't be all that special or you 'd have fallen for her donkeys ' years ago . |