Example sentences of "would [vb infin] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only point I 'd make on that sir , you 'll see from that that the ten mile limit does extend across the county boundary into Humberside . |
| 2 | Some might be tempted to say in touch with reality , but I think I 'd prefer on this occasion to say in touch with another dimension of reality . |
| 3 | You 'd knock on the door and a little slit would open . |
| 4 | I 'd stay on the sip , whatever Frejji said , and wait for her to finish . |
| 5 | A shadow programme to give people an idea what they 'd earn on commission is in effect meantime . |
| 6 | In fact , they were so well drilled that when I went to C Division — Essex Street — you 'd wait on the corner of a back street and there 'd be a crowd of fellers there and within no time , before you could get near them , they 'd all have disappeared . |
| 7 | But perhaps those three are the ones you 'll , if it was a new person coming in to the job you 'd concentrate on that would n't you ? |
| 8 | They kept it intact to the last but both of them knew , without any discussion , that to keep themselves afloat they 'd jump on any passing raft . |
| 9 | ‘ If I had children I 'd swear on their graves . |
| 10 | As you 'd expect on the Isle of Wight there 's an endless list of bed and breakfasts . |
| 11 | The analogue recording is clean , smooth , and well-balanced , but benefits from being given a little extra playback volume to help bring the instruments into focus ; fortunately tape hiss levels are as low as you 'd expect on a good digital recording . |
| 12 | The quality of workmanship is what you 'd expect on an instrument costing just under thirteen hundred pounds and even if it was n't a limited edition I 'd still say it was worth the money . |
| 13 | The facilities on the A4 are the kind you 'd expect on a unit costing rather more . |
| 14 | Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 15 | Well this boat 's fitted with the race pack which gives it a lot of the extra controls that you 'd expect on a larger sail boat . |
| 16 | Oh the erm if there is a sort of major beneficiary that Carpet Right because of course we owned the in them fairly decent straight throughout Currys , Dixons and some of the market people Quicksave erm , the sort of spread you 'd expect on any retail park you know . |
| 17 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 18 | She had a commode in her room , but she just could n't use the commode or she 'd urinate on it — she just would n't take the lid off or get the hang of this thing at all . |
| 19 | As she were in a hurry an' it were ready I said you 'd send on t' bill . ’ |
| 20 | Not exactly the first person I 'd send on a Feile stage to confront a horde of lunatics crazed by a thunderstorm but Nanci Griffith 's gifts are more private and homely . |
| 21 | we 'd clim on tap |
| 22 | He was wearing some kind of rock ‘ n ’ roll suit , the sort of thing that Jerry Lee Lewis might have worn — or more likely the duds you 'd see on a young country buck in one of those dreadful fifties US musicals like Carousel or County Fair . |
| 23 | ‘ They had to be believable as the kind of kids you 'd see on the streets , but not on TV . |
| 24 | He was , he was more like a pantomime character , how , character you 'd see on the stage |
| 25 | It was a downmarket job ; he 'd report on reactions to his attempts to change a $1000 bill , sit in a lion 's cage at the local zoo , or clean windows on the twenty-eighth floor of a skyscraper . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd insist on Fergie having her bottom measured , and we 'd get Jimmy Nail in the witness box and wave a huge plastic dinosaur in front of him . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that Simon worshipped the ground you walked on means you must have been one hundred per cent certain that when you told him he 'd insist on marrying you — which he did — so what difference did that one day make to you ? ’ |
| 28 | When you 've lived on subsistence for two years what do you do when your shoes wear out , when you get a £100 fuel bill , when the washing machine breaks down , when a pair of children 's shoes cost you more than you 'd spend on your own ? |
| 29 | Well write , write down how much you 'd save and how much you 'd spend on sweets , how much you 'd spend on presents , how much on stationery . |
| 30 | Well write , write down how much you 'd save and how much you 'd spend on sweets , how much you 'd spend on presents , how much on stationery . |