Example sentences of "would [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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1 | Fit and well he 'd make a lot of difference to the England side |
2 | But he 'd need a lot of shelter to survive . |
3 | I 'd do a lot for Sue , but a man has to draw the line somewhere . " |
4 | overpower , you know , creep up on you , I , I 'd , it 'd just get the better of me Eric that 's why I got really the other one you see and that , I , I have n't come to any harm not having it , and erm I 've just got to get rid of this because it 's , I 'd do a lot more Eric if it were n't for the television , I know I 'll miss it when I get rid of it you see , it has been described as a plug-in drug |
5 | I I think you 'd be er you 'd succeed a lot more in that . |
6 | They said they 'd give a lot of help . |
7 | " Some people would give their eyes to — well , they 'd give a lot to have your eyesight at your age . " |
8 | ‘ I 'd give a lot to know what forensic evidence they 've found . ’ |
9 | Ok agreed , I do n't think we 'd generate a lot of money for those 5 though . |
10 | ‘ I 'd see a lot more stars when Carmen hit me over the head with it . |
11 | you 'd see a lot more things of interest and maybe say oh I 'll take it from minus fifteen to plus fifteen . |
12 | That rudder movement equals braking and so it 's slowing you down , it may look impressive being heeled over like this but I 'd sail a lot faster if the boat were flat . |
13 | There was a sort of bird sanctuary on an island in the middle of the lake and I 'd spend a lot of my time watching the comings and goings of the inhabitants . |
14 | I 'd work a lot less if I could . |
15 | But you 'd miss a lot of important points . |
16 | It 'd cost a lot of money . |
17 | I 'd lay a lot of money on it ! |
18 | Although I had n't met him before , like many would-be adventurers I 'd read a lot about his life and experiences . |
19 | ‘ You said you 'd read a lot about them . ’ |
20 | ‘ She 'd have a lot to get used to at first , ’ Rose said absently as she scanned through the letter . |
21 | ‘ People had said to me that I 'd have a lot of spare time on the film set — oh sure ! |
22 | So if you just kept your treble clef you 'd have a lot of lines possibly that you were n't using at all . |
23 | Er it 's not like if you had a lot of people in the flats who were all working up at for example , you 'd have a lot more kind of community spirit going , and a lot , and a lot more common erm feeling , I think , between people . |
24 | I 'd have a lot more if it was n't for bloody death duties . ’ |
25 | We have someone always there for those who have er , society those who are poor er , women er , many of the issues that we feel very strongly and here , here She had no sort of cultural historic resonance with the nation of Wales but I 'm sure her and the way she approaches her whole ministry would mean that she 'd have a lot of than those of us here in the URC in Wales . |
26 | She could have it out and she 'd have a lot of fun with it and on it . |
27 | And then if she says well and , and then I might say but I just would imagine that you 'd have a lot more to do with your life before you thought about settling down and getting engaged to someone . |
28 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
29 | But it 'd save a lot of hard work if you got rid of quite a lot of it . |
30 | I mean your mum 'd save a lot of money if she found a l job locally where she did n't have to travel . |