Example sentences of "we say [pron] 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 2 | We said we 'd pass on offers . |
| 3 | It is it 's more of a little story and it 's not a front page shocker which I think is what we said we 'd set out to write , a front page shocker okay so I think you 've got to think about the kind of words you use . |
| 4 | Naturally we said we 'd stop work for the day . |
| 5 | But we said we 'd build in local stone and blend in with the area . |
| 6 | Yeah , I think we said we 'd go . |
| 7 | Cos we said we 'd go to , for some time up to er , oh what motorway John ? |
| 8 | I have n't yet no , but I think he 's outside mixing cement , we said we 'd go and give him a hand to put his posts in |
| 9 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 10 | Well w we said we 'd prefer to be upstairs |
| 11 | And that 's how it started and it was really just you know we said we 'd do a bit of fund raising and I think the men were pretty sceptical of you know they thi they thought we might fight over the first tin of beans or whatever . |
| 12 | We said we 'd do that . |
| 13 | With the Maestro and Montego we said we 'd respond to customer demand . |
| 14 | Well we did because we said we 'd have to specify what to . |
| 15 | We said we 'd ring them up that afternoon to see what everybody thought . |
| 16 | We were afraid to tell Dad the exact truth so we said we 'd put them there to prevent them getting broken . |
| 17 | Well , tell them I 'll be back whether the King wants me or not , We said we 'd take this damned city , and we 're going to . ’ |
| 18 | Erm the f the first thing er first of two things that we said we 'd look at just now were erm the kind of work that you did erm with clients in the flats . |
| 19 | After we 've got We said we 'd get the appraisal system up and running did n't we . |
| 20 | I think did n't we say we 'd cover it as part of an E O workshop . |