Example sentences of "would put a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't think I would of been very pleased if you 'd put a go in the room for an hour ! |
| 2 | I wish I 'd put a jumper on |
| 3 | I 'd never wear anything clingy ; I might wear a camisole , like this , but I 'd put a shirt over it before I went out . |
| 4 | Then add , you 'd put a plus sign , one and equal , two and two plus two equalled four . |
| 5 | He 'd put a couple of cattle on this owd cart ; and I was a-pulling on 'em up , helping his horse , a-tracing on him . |
| 6 | He 'd put a couple of maggots on a small hook . |
| 7 | They used to , cos they 'd put a couple in the old anchor boat what we were n't using it , put a couple in there and they 'd tow 'em up to the dock . |
| 8 | it was nothing for you to have the er sole of your sh shoe flapping off and having to wear 'em till the p there was a little man that used to mend the shoes in Hirael there and you 'd go to him and he 'd put a couple of nails , never charge you for it you know . |
| 9 | My brothers 'd be watching his every move , just hoping he 'd put a foot wrong so they could jump in and scrag him . |
| 10 | I 'd put a dirk in one of them , and then where would you be , and you trying to convince the king of your peaceable nature ? ’ |
| 11 | Once Paul realised what was going on he 'd put a stop to it . |
| 12 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 13 | He 'd put a bullet in her brain himself . |
| 14 | If you complained , he 'd put a curse on you . |
| 15 | And what the folks had done , with their quarterly newsletter that they send to both villages , North and South , on the back , they 'd put a form requesting that every household submitted their five favourite hymns . |
| 16 | You ca n't play sport properly on a shoestring so if we could get a major sponsor for the world cup it 'd put a lot of people 's minds at rest so they could concentrate on their cricket |
| 17 | Er if I was in power I 'd put a tax on every child after two I would have taxed you out of existence Ellen . |
| 18 | But when Luke Thackray came round with his cap , she 'd put a penny or two in it just the same , like everybody else , knowing , as they all did , that Disaster , which had struck the Rattries today , might strike any of them tomorrow . |
| 19 | She 'd put a fifty-pound note in it and so she thought that it had been stolen . |
| 20 | I thought I 'd put a disc out or something , then yesterday my legs started to feel quite strange , and when I woke this morning — my husband was really worried , he fetched the doctor — Nurse Avery , I 'm so scared ! ’ |
| 21 | He 'd been so lovely , and her shoulder still burned where he 'd put a hand on it after the game . |
| 22 | He might have had to explain why he 'd put a Fax machine out here for the sheep to use on a quiet day . |
| 23 | By the time they 'd put a medal round my neck in Central Park and we could visualise the noughts on the cheque to present to Oxford Street , Mill Road and Fazakerley Hospital 's Newborn Appeal , 25,000 runners had learned a lot more about how painful running 26 miles can be . |
| 24 | I 'd put a tape on and turn the radio off . |
| 25 | Well he was ringing from Birmingham , he 'd put a pound in , it lasted twenty minutes . |
| 26 | It would mean that British Gas would put a mileage rate on the transportation of gas so that regions such as Wales will suffer from higher gas prices , which will offset anything that we may do to achieve efficiency . |
| 27 | I must say erm I , I do wonder whether the district council might be enabled to say unless goods are sold from a car boot this is not a car boot sale er , therefore , we would put a ban on all commercial vans and vehicle entering these sites er that 's not being articles described in the er in the er maybe that 's something you could look at . |
| 28 | Curtius Kenn was a bloody nuisance , and sooner or later someone would put a ScumStopper under his heart and get himself free drinks on the house for a month . |
| 29 | As argued elsewhere ( Tomkins , 1987 ) , both Mrs Thatcher in moving to a more competitive economy in the United Kingdom and President Kennedy in declaring that the United States would put a man on the moon established very strong ideologies based more on fundamental beliefs as to what was required than on extensive rational analysis , and they both achieved considerable change . |
| 30 | That would put a dent in his omnipotence . |