Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'd drink of a cup of cold piss at this moment in time , Tony , if it blotted out the world . |
2 | ‘ I 'd settle for a sandwich . ’ |
3 | ‘ I 'd pay for a cup of wine and I have dice , though I would love to know the finer points of the game ! ’ |
4 | ‘ Yeah , I do n't know how I 'd cope as a solo artist because we 're a real support group to each other . |
5 | I went to this party at Mr Midwinter 's and it 's a wonderful house with footmen and things , and I went in just the sort of clothes I 'd wear for a party here in Helsinki . |
6 | ‘ I thought I 'd start with a dip in the hot tub . |
7 | You are the last one I 'd throw from a lifeboat . ’ |
8 | I 'd sit with a Coke and some crisps and watch him drink . |
9 | I thought I 'd stay for a while . ’ |
10 | I 'd go to a list broker of my acquaintance . |
11 | I 'd go for a night out and I 'd be praying they did n't take off my trousers . |
12 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
13 | No , I do n't think I 'd go for a house that erm I would n't but those big houses of course it would have alarms would n't it ? |
14 | ‘ If I wanted to wade around in shit I 'd go for a walk down a sewer . |
15 | I was a bit bored this lunchtime , so I though I 'd type in a bit of a report that I read in the Daily Mail about the Hibs game . |
16 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
17 | On the whole I 'd look for a combination of striking colours and light . |
18 | On the whole I 'd look for a combination of colours and light . |
19 | You knew immediately that Jancey had stuffed these guys into her flat because she knew I 'd come for a showdown , and it had to be tonight . |
20 | I 'd die of a heart attack . |
21 | It was a bit of a squash but he did n't seem to mind and I 'd put on a tape of golden oldies ( stuff from around 1985 ) for them to sing along to . |
22 | Maybe I 'd put in a consultancy bill . |
23 | I just went over there and said it was okay , th I 'd put in a letter and they still could n't just take it off . |
24 | And he sort of puts his hand near it , oh it 's a bit warm , oh I 'd say about a couple of amps . |
25 | ‘ I 'd say in a way that basically it 's a form of a policing job . |
26 | The 21-year-old from Darlington says : ‘ I used to get up at five in the morning and go cleaning at Presto , then I 'd work in a chippy from eleven to two and then later I 'd do some child-minding . |
27 | ‘ I 've got to the stage where if someone said ‘ here 's £10 million ’ I 'd sell like a shot . |
28 | I would soften like a season |
29 | But I can not see what I would do with a home computer , one of which I am continually being urged to buy by manufacturers and retailers and by drops in prices of the things that are as near as a toucher opening up my cheque book . |
30 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |