Example sentences of "we 'd [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they do that to a dumb animal you wonder what they would do to us if we 'd disturbed them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I told you we 'd quarrelled . |
| 3 | I said how I 'd feel if it was you and me , and we 'd quarrelled , and you 'd died … ’ |
| 4 | Repeatedly we had cursed ourselves and our schools for allowing us to think we 'd grasped maths , physics and so on when now we could n't remember any of the important or useful things . |
| 5 | Most of the teams that we 'd organized that we sent notes round to start at seven thirty . |
| 6 | On Thursday night we had a light supper after we 'd registered and unpacked our things . |
| 7 | I nodded , feeling a sense of relief , as if we 'd cleared some giant obstacle in a fog . |
| 8 | When we 'd cleared the shop out and put the stuff in the fridge , I used to all , scrub all round all the ta you know , the shelves round the sides and clean the scale down and the bacon machine and I used to scrape the block with a proper scraper . |
| 9 | The umbrella group we 'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance , but the name still meant something . |
| 10 | which lists the activities erm that we 'd referred to before , on the original note |
| 11 | ‘ After Munich I thought we 'd saved the day . |
| 12 | We 'd saved for it , taken enormous care in choosing the location , even-God spare us in our mortal error-looked forward to the holiday . |
| 13 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 14 | When we went to Portugal there was er a lass , we 'd saved some money and I said , I said do n't spend it all |
| 15 | He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’ |
| 16 | Woke up this morning certain that we 'd lost : must stop eating cheese before going to sleep , or , for that matter , going to sleep before eating cheese . |
| 17 | But someone wrote to say we 'd lost their vote because they were so appalled by Laura 's late hours ! ’ |
| 18 | If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton . |
| 19 | She was very patient but we 'd lost time . |
| 20 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 21 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 22 | We thought … we thought we 'd lost you . |
| 23 | Then I thought we 'd lost . |
| 24 | What a long journey home it would have been if we 'd lost . |
| 25 | The frightening thing is , we 'd have got an hour 's highlights even if we 'd lost … |
| 26 | I do n't think we 'd lost it had we ? |
| 27 | He fainted when they moved him , it was such an upheaval thought we 'd lost him then , and then on a beautiful air bed and he looked |
| 28 | and we 'd lost one . |
| 29 | ‘ We recorded it because it was the first song we 'd written , ’ says Mike , founder member of the band . |
| 30 | The Hairflair stand attracted thousands of hair enthusiasts , all eager to see the January issue which we 'd printed especially early for the show . |