Example sentences of "they 'd [vb infin] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would get men to race him , see which ones could outpace him , they 'd wear helmets and all look the part . |
| 2 | It used to be used as a punishment : they 'd make inmates clean up the hospital wing , that sort of thing . |
| 3 | They 'd stir things up with lots of nasty sly remarks , especially to someone like me who was n't doing anything tangible they could punish . |
| 4 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 5 | and after say three o'clock in the afternoon they 'd do activities , work connected with |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'd got engaged to anybody else , any of these young girls you cite , they 'd expect things from me I 'm not prepared to give — ’ |
| 7 | Listeners can help by asking the stammerer whether they 'd like gaps in sentences filled when they come across a particularly difficult word . |
| 8 | The assumption that once women had freedom from fear of pregnancy they 'd like men and they 'd like sex , just like that , meant neither sex nor men nor the economics of women 's powerlessness had to change . |
| 9 | They 'd say things like , ‘ Glen , you 've been a really naughty boy . |
| 10 | If people are leaving severed heads in fonts and monkeying about with regimental relics after hours they 'd need keys and naturally it 's awkward for Charles if … ’ |
| 11 | I bet some of the crew thought there 'd be wheels right into the Jungle and food trucks parked every few miles and they 'd get burgers and chips served by girls wearing flower garlands round their necks . |
| 12 | How they puffed themselves up to outstrip others in their pleasure-giving powers , how they boomed when they protested they 'd avenge assaults on her innocence by others . |
| 13 | Thousands was in no time , they 'd count tonnes . |
| 14 | In all these with what you know they 'd have children by the galore in these er terraced houses . |
| 15 | Anyway yeah they had this , this fungus and erm they , they kicked down a door and erm got extremely , extremely energetic and like put like erm er er er in this store , it was a storeroom and they 'd put things like the projectors and erm er catering equipment |
| 16 | Oh they used to all different stalls used to sell One stall they used to sell fruit and and that and then perhaps another stall they 'd sell pots and er and all like that all down on them stalls . |
| 17 | Boys who controlled a dreadful game ; they 'd blindfold girls and thrust dismembered parts of human bodies into their hands : there 's your brain ! your eyeball ! your liver ! |