Example sentences of "he 'd [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They earn in a year what he 'd pay a French worker in a month . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think he 'd give a damn . ’ |
| 3 | He gives Rachel the blank stare he 'd give a truant officer . |
| 4 | ‘ If he 'd give a free-kick to us the Blackburn crowd would n't have complained . |
| 5 | I know that 's hard to believe , because you 'd think he 'd choose a wife who 's always well-dressed , competent at absolutely everything , and totally reliable . |
| 6 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 7 | He 's more discerning , he 'd prefer a slow build-up , like him and me . |
| 8 | And although Mr Knight admitted he 'd prefer a pint of bitter , he agreed that Drinkwise Day was an excellent idea . |
| 9 | So he 'd design a new one , and he 'd write to the guy at Quality Street and say look , I think , I 'm a graphic designer , I think your box is a load of rubbish , I 've designed this , will you pay me for it ? |
| 10 | He drank barley wine which is quite strong stuff and he 'd smoke a few joints as well , but to the best of my knowledge , he would n't touch any hard drugs at all . |
| 11 | ‘ He said he 'd stuff a mattress with it ! ’ whispered Gabriel hoarsely . |
| 12 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 13 | Ken tried to make friends if he thought he 'd upset a colleague whom he did respect or value . |
| 14 | He 'd feel a little bit of pity for his mother and the labrador he 'd owned at eight , awe at the dead pop stars and disgust at the lack of fashion and the bad music played for the occasion . |
| 15 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 16 | Erm of Laurence Olivier , emphasized wro wrongly you know , when he was speaking certain parts into the if he thought the audience was flagging then he 'd speak a bit louder to you know |
| 17 | Carver said he 'd love a cup and carefully chose a stool to perch on well away from the chairs round the table . |
| 18 | So , er he put me onto it , oh he said you 've got to go down , he 's missing you all , he 's , and he 'd love a bit of |
| 19 | BOWLER Vic Macey joked he 'd break a pal 's leg if he hit him for four at a Paignton cricket match — then DID accidentally after the game . |
| 20 | She did n't even wish he 'd break a leg . |
| 21 | He say , well I 've o I 've only got two and he 'd , he 'd break a Woodbine in half and they 'd have half each . |
| 22 | I also like Sheffield Wednesday 's Chris Bart-Williams — he 'd do a great job . |
| 23 | He 'd do a standard trunk escape , but come on as a clown to test the chains . |
| 24 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 25 | Father , when he used to , I 'd seen him years ago when he was a young man , he 'd do a sheep in five minutes . |
| 26 | So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens . |
| 27 | He 'd drink a little . |
| 28 | He 'd drink a dram with his friends . |
| 29 | Cos he 'd want a cup of tea . |
| 30 | There might be a yachtsman come along and he 'd want a mooring , so he 'd say to my father , can you fix us up yes , get an old bit of chain and put round , put some wooden wed wedges in tighten 'em up , up , that 's his , that 's his mooring , he 'd take it somewhere in the river , have it dumped , put a buoy on it , that was , that 's like his anchor . |