Example sentences of "we would [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd go to the public gallery at the Old Bailey and listen to the trials . |
| 2 | So we thought we 'd walk to the next stop , and then we see this bag on the floor . |
| 3 | We 'd squeeze to the dusty walls to let the horse-drawn carriages past . |
| 4 | As we slid at speed down the escarpment we took care to avoid nettles and barbed wire , then we 'd squeeze between the splintery struts of the Essoldo 's picket fence . |
| 5 | But others of us who were Governors were so opposed to it that we all said we 'd resign from the governing body if the school did opt out . |
| 6 | Without line B , we might reasonably conclude that this evaluation is the poet 's judgment , just as we would suppose for the preceding verses , 15–16 ( though the presence of ) in v. 15 may give us second thoughts ) . |
| 7 | Carpets and cushions would be ordered and we would sit in the hot stillness , our voices quiet , the half-English , half-Arabic clear on the heavy air . |
| 8 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 10 | This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory . |
| 11 | In addition we would draw upon the legal skills of [ Solicitors ] . |
| 12 | We decided that for the Capital Guarantee Bond we would advertise in the national press . |
| 13 | In that we would go through the same procedure , whether they lived in |
| 14 | Whether we would go to the full two fifty I think will have to be you know we 'll have to wait till nearer the time . |
| 15 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 16 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 17 | It would be somewhat difficult to pick the best of the Villa San Paolo 's many attractions , but , if we were pushed to it , we would go for the stupendous view from the swimming pool . |
| 18 | We would go into the big shops in town and take anything big , anything we could get away with . ’ |
| 19 | How do we compare what we 're doing on our short-term with what we said we would do on the long-term . |
| 20 | Well each has a particular history erm each has a particular culture and pattern of doing things , structure of government as I 've mentioned but also of course we have common interests so in foreign policy we sometimes draw differences between what we would regard as the direct interests of each state and what we can call common interests of mankind . |
| 21 | Afterwards we would walk around the Close and plan our future , and also talk about the war . |
| 22 | The salmon sheets Chair , we have shown our estimates of what ideally we would like for the continuing introduction of the Children Act and its requirements , the Criminal Justice Act , and the Warner Reports , but we do recognize , and I think this Committee recognizes , the difficult financial position the County Council finds itself in , and therefore the intention is to meet those unavoidable requirements from within the base budget , and there are no bids in these papers for funding towards those . |
| 23 | When harmonizing a piece we must decide what kind of horizontal spread we would like in the harmonic atmosphere . |
| 24 | On this day we would come to the other end of the running spectrum , to the fastest men and women on earth whose triumphs would depend upon mere hundredths of a second in the 100 metres . |
| 25 | She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars . |
| 26 | We would search for the defined pieces and then put them together in the proper order as suggested in the drawing . |
| 27 | The discovery of even a few of these objects could tell us much about the early history of the Solar System , perhaps more than we would learn from the elusive ( or illusory ) Planet X. Gerald D. Quinlan is at the Lick Observatory , University of California , . |
| 28 | They seemed to be breaking up , and to the west a different valley - the one we would descend into the next day — was filling with a luminous gold haze . |
| 29 | In the course of this latest war , Douglas Hurd has said that the British state has ‘ no interest in interfering in Iraq , any more than we would interfere in the internal affairs of another country ’ . |
| 30 | We would hold a meeting of women from a certain neighbourhood to discuss their needs and then we would help with the necessary work of filing a request for services at the Town Hall . |