Example sentences of "[art] [adj] thing you would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pursuit of good living is not the innocent thing you would like it to be , my dear ; you were n't born in time to watch my compatriots during the war , the energies they put into it , the boys dying Pour La Patrie while the family at home fought about L'Héritage and assured the survival of La Bonne Cuisine . |
| 2 | And and there 's , the more money you had the more things you would buy , so the more VAT you 'd pay ? |
| 3 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 4 | The first thing you would notice about the landscape if you were to travel back in time was how wet it was . |
| 5 | He is proposing , which is the last thing you would find the United States , statutory works councils , statutory minimum wage , compulsory working week , it 's about time he dropped those proposals which would cost millions of jobs . |