Example sentences of "we [vb past] we 'd [vb pp] " 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 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 4 | We did n't report them to the authorities , or anything like , we knew we 'd we 'd earned them . |
| 5 | ‘ We thought we 'd denied the wolves a good meal . |
| 6 | We thought we 'd made it clear that it was only the MPC ( Multimedia PC ) versions of either card ( that is the SoundBlaster Pro and the Adlib Gold ) gave access to both MID and WAV file playing . |
| 7 | We thought … we thought we 'd lost you . |
| 8 | ‘ We thought we 'd solved the problem when we introduced the Corporate Wardrobe in 1988 , ’ said Bob , ‘ but unfortunately , it did n't work . |
| 9 | In the 1980s , we thought we 'd found salvation to our problems in artificial intelligence and expert systems . |
| 10 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 11 | Upon being introduced by the special needs coordinator as the new tutor to a group of students with severe learning difficulties , I heard several groans of ‘ Oh no , we thought we 'd got rid of you … ’ . |
| 12 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 13 | We thought yo , we thought we 'd got |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But in the end we felt we 'd seen enough of logging and gum-digging . |
| 16 | We thought we wished we 'd left earlier now . |