Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 2 | I thought we 'd do it in the fresh air rather than in the car , cos it just means |
| 3 | Donna was n't sure whether it was perspiration or if she 'd wet herself in the hectic chase . |
| 4 | You 'd plan it around the main course the main the main meat . |
| 5 | Christine I said we 'd meet her by the baked beans so |
| 6 | What they 're saying in effect is that they 're not going to entrust their latest toy to their closest ally because we 'd flog it to the first Russian we came across . ’ |
| 7 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 8 | ‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus . |
| 9 | If the authorities read that they 'd put me on the next bus to [ name of border area ] and keep me there . |
| 10 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 11 | There was the Youth Hostel if you were desperate , he said , but they wondered where your back-pack was and you had to say you 'd put it in the Left Luggage at the station . |
| 12 | But you 'd regret it in the long run , I think , would n't you ? |
| 13 | About thirty in each suite to differ and a master key and as I say there was five suites and they had to make a key that 'd open everyone of the fifty-five . |
| 14 | ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’ |
| 15 | It was suggested that Library staff could take over this function , since they are scanning the journals in any case , and the work would lend itself to the eventual creation of an image database , but Library staff shortages have made it impossible to undertake this work systematically . |
| 16 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 17 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 18 | Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order . |
| 19 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 20 | Such a ban on Hateley would debar him from the European Cup final in May , should Rangers overcome Marseille and then do well enough in their last Group A match , against CSKA Moscow at Ibrox . |
| 21 | No one would come forward to claim the body and Athelstan knew the parish watch would bury it like the decaying corpse of a dog . |
| 22 | She would confine herself to the final phase of Marie 's life . |
| 23 | He 'd notice and would n't mention it because mentioning would bring everything into the open again . |
| 24 | Faintly disappointed , she emptied her lungs and resumed the walk which would bring her to the main gate . |
| 25 | The arrangement would bring him into the same stable as Hackett menswear , and people who mix in such circles believe that Lagerfeld , who designs for Chanel and Fendi , will also work for Chloe , Dunhill 's fashion label . |
| 26 | ‘ I had arranged with Sister Stevens that on the next occasion that Len presented with either a hangover or a stomach upset I would refer him to the occupational health centre where they would suggest counselling , as I believed Len was becoming a danger to himself and everyone else . ’ |
| 27 | I would refer you to the late . |
| 28 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 29 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 30 | She had n't guessed it would land her in the thick of a family feud . |