Example sentences of "[pron] would get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I knew I would get a big sentence .
2 Someone would get a new car , or a new cat : a tree would be lopped : the milkman 's horse bolt .
3 Regulations about auditing pension funds hinder profitability , but without them nobody would get a fair pension .
4 Obviously during the pregnancy she was visiting the doctor so she would get a good check up .
5 She should n't run off with any of his old mates or she would get a good hiding when he came home .
6 It did n't occur to her that she would get a good shot in … fine aim had never been one of her strong points — so when she heard him shout her name behind her , her instinct as ever was to run .
7 Under Swiss law she would get a long prison sentence .
8 She would get a little flat of her own , perhaps go and stay with Great-Aunt Alicia at week-ends .
9 She would get the three penny stamps from the machine for a start .
10 be , she would get the same amount paid per week or you can have the increasing one where it would increase erm in line with inflation .
11 One thing that I think we have to be very careful about , if we did legalize cannabis there would be a proportion of adolescents who would get a great kick out of it , but there would those who do n't get the kick because it 's not illegal .
12 And the only time you would get a new pair was if the top part of the shoe
13 So we we we tend to have a different sort of , probably if you 'd , if you ask that question differently you would get a different percentage .
14 You would get a different sort of feel again by installing a big armoire or bureau bookcase if you could afford one or the other .
15 However , ‘ there would be swearing , there would be people coming in drunk … staggering from the local pubs into the ground , but they were a tiny , tiny minority and you would get the odd fight breaking out ’ .
16 Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product .
17 If you said that Liveseys ' do twenty per cent of the mixing and all of the marketing , you would get an approximate idea . ’
18 So we would get a screaming phone call from one of the local nurseries , and ten minutes later a howling , sopping bundle lands on the doorstep and the welcoming buti scoops it up , sick and nappies and all .
19 Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it .
20 We knew we would get a big loss this year partly because of the cost of the changes we have made .
21 ‘ They said we would get an extra hour in October when the clocks go back but I 'll believe that when I see it . ’
22 The meetings were considered successful , and doubtless those who came to take part in them would get a double benefit from the fine air and the healthful scenes around that beautifully situated city .
23 He claimed that Iran badly needed TOW anti-tank missiles and in return for them would get the American hostages being held in Beirut released .
24 Cresswell believed that the ‘ dole business ’ in the south was responsible ; Cooper claimed that on election day ‘ when children went to get free dinners they were told to tell their parents that if Cooper was returned no more free dinners would be given ’ ; Coath said that electors had been told that if they voted for him ‘ they would get no more doles ’ ; and Clare had been accused of voting against the guardians ' grant of coal to the unemployed ( SE 11 November 22 ) .
25 they would get a good dividend of it .
26 Mr Aziz 's initial reaction encouraged the Russians to believe that they would get a good reply , and get it promptly .
27 They would put things on a proper footing , he would take a job , they would get a good housekeeper .
28 They thought they would get a warm welcome when they offered the money to the charity-funded hospice in Milton , Cambs .
29 The Mayor , while not quantifying his optimism added , ‘ that there was no doubt they would get a large number of members from Reading and Maidenhead ’ .
30 My guess was right when I thought they would get an awful lot from a Video Course , even though it was n't in their language .
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