Example sentences of "you would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You see I think if I I 'm trying to en envisage it , if you are erm you , you live in an area and er there have been some er outbreaks of violence of , you know , a nasty nature , some people have been killed , there 's been sort of erm disruption and er and so on , I do n't know how you 'd feel , I think you may feel erm a bit concerned about this , you 'd see things breaking down and you would n't see quite where it 's going to , to lead . |
| 32 | And that 's bad news , I mean , and I 'm sure you 'd feel that way yourselves in many I think basically no one welcomes the interfering busybody , as you may be looked upon , but then strangely , and again this is where the ambivalence comes in , when it suits us , you 're of course our knights in shining armour . |
| 33 | So all you 'd do is you 'd cast about for a friend , you 'd decide on a price that you would accept and if it was a friend , if you had to sell it and you needed fifteen quid to buy a pair of shoes or whatever , erm and you 'd like twenty , you 'd turn to a mate and go , Have you got twenty quid ? and he he 'd say yes or no . |
| 34 | If you knew what we know , you 'd realise we had to take the action we did . ’ |
| 35 | But this first impression is grossly misleading — as you 'd realise if you heard Diversion 's rather wonderful EP , ‘ BZ ’ — four short , sharp pop songs which roll around experimentally in a wide field of influences and still come up smelling of roses , mainly because they 're all squashed together into spunky two and a half minute blasts . |
| 36 | You 've got it made if only you 'd realise it . ’ |
| 37 | If you read more history instead of newspapers , my boy , you 'd realise that 's the way it has always been . ’ |
| 38 | If you knew the place in 1959 you 'd realise that lectures on Camus and Same would have fallen completely flat . |
| 39 | If you knew anything about me , Mr Bryce , ’ she bristled , ‘ you 'd realise your request is both unnecessary and offensive . |
| 40 | ‘ If you mean drugs , then no , Adam , you 're way off line and you have been all the time — as you 'd realise for yourself if you 'd just open your eyes and see the truth instead of what you want to see . ’ |
| 41 | You 'd see two fellows fighting in the street — you 'd pull them up and send them on their way . |
| 42 | And er me job there was turning sock what you 'd call halfoes you know mens ' socks , from one side to the other on a piece of wood , you know you 'd pull the stocking onto this wood , put your finger on the back , turned it over and threw it down . |
| 43 | ‘ I just wish you 'd pull yourself together , ’ she said half despairingly . |
| 44 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |
| 45 | You would drop them , bang them , let the rain dampen them , but every night you 'd pull them through and oil them , then every time you squeezed the trigger the boring old things would fin . |
| 46 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 47 | ‘ If you only had twelve of us instead of thirty-two you 'd manage much better . ’ |
| 48 | You 'd manage somehow . |
| 49 | If Pickles really does love you , maybe the pater would give her a decent allowance and you 'd manage somehow . |
| 50 | I did n't think you 'd manage to come today ! |
| 51 | But whether you 'd manage to sign all schools I 'm not so sure . |
| 52 | So you , you 'd manage on fifteen thousand but then after the twelve months you 'd most probably want to go up to say seventy five percent of your earnings ? |
| 53 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 54 | Each morning you 'd set on your round . |
| 55 | She looked vaguely at it and then said , ‘ I thought you 'd set it for home . ’ |
| 56 | I mean if you 'd set precise standards in the first place , you would n't have caused all that confusion . |
| 57 | I mean , by the time you 'd set off walking you could set off at eleven and walk there till twelve go in there till two then you |
| 58 | You 'd set it up and like they 'd choose someone else or something . |
| 59 | You 'd dock my pay soon enough if I did n't do everything you and Matey ordered me to do in my waking hours . ’ |
| 60 | Now then , so you 'd carpet them two |