Example sentences of "you would [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To look at her now ye would take her for fifty-two .
2 Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script .
3 People must believe that you 're such a tough shit you would snap them in half if they sneezed .
4 I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne .
5 So I knew you would eat it like that in an omelette .
6 ‘ Roman , I have never imagined you would hurt me in any way !
7 And then they were raked into Well we just er If they were dry they were raked into big swathes , to be near where you could build the tramp coles But if they were n't you would put them into little coles and the and then they were the little coles was put up t t together to make a bigger one .
8 But you would put it in alphabetical order
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