Example sentences of "[vb past] we 'd [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did
2 But we you know , one was one would be boiling the the white metal , we 'd we 'd fixed on the and er one would be boiling and pouring the stuff and the other cutting y you know breaking up the the mould sort of thing and piling the stuff out and as fast as we were piling them up , some beggar was creeping in and stealing them .
3 I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out .
4 ‘ I thought we 'd dispensed with formality . ’
5 Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention .
6 ‘ I thought we 'd finished with that for ever . ’
7 ‘ I thought we 'd agreed on it .
8 I thought we 'd picked on Rockhill Farm .
9 Yeah I , I feel Brian I mean , you know , you said we 'd got ta be natural , it 's all very well reading from a script but at the end of the day it 's natural that comes across .
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