Example sentences of "[conj] we 'd be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 2 | But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world . |
| 3 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 4 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 5 | Several of them enquired if we 'd been to the races ( we all had ) and had backed the winner ( no , we had n't ) . |
| 6 | Germon said , ‘ Obviously we 'd have wanted to get back to continue if we 'd been in ( ND skipper ) David White 's shoes . ’ |
| 7 | And whereas , if we 'd been in the Lake District we 'd have got a tan , so it just depends . |
| 8 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 9 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 10 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 11 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 12 | Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest |
| 13 | That evening , Abu Salim came to chain Brian and me up after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 14 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 15 | I remember wandering with Donald somewhere in the East End after we 'd been to the Whitechapel and we saw a group of teddies standing round two middle-aged Indians . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , years and years ago , after we 'd been in Italy a matter of fifteen months or so . ’ |
| 17 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |