Example sentences of "[prep] thing you would " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing you would do — to make yourself look big — to make me look a fool . |
| 2 | Killing Elinor was the kind of thing you would need years of study to accomplish . |
| 3 | The great thing about library music is that it is fairly non-commital : you can go in all kinds of directions and you 're asked to provide music in a certain style , which may not be the sort of thing you would do naturally , but it 's still enjoyable to do . |
| 4 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 5 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 6 | ‘ It was not the sort of thing you would normally say but you can maybe understand his point of view . |
| 7 | not this sort of thing you would n't as I say |