Example sentences of "would [verb] put a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she had half an ounce of sense , ’ she said , ‘ she 'd 've put a lock on this thing . ’ |
| 2 | You and Daryl where in the first form room before afternoon school and I 'm sure we 'll all remember you saying you 'd like to put a spider down Mary Lou 's neck . |
| 3 | You know , like they 'd have to put a bit of a twist in it I suppose . |
| 4 | She kept trying to trample them , slam the door , but he kept kicking it back open and sooner or later she 'd have to put a name to her feelings , and she was afraid , so afraid , that the name was love … but it must n't be , she thought savagely ; it ca n't be . |
| 5 | Otherwise I 'd have put a brick through your window . |
| 6 | ‘ I left because no one could take what he 's had to take ; surely he 'd have put a gun to his mouth by now ? |
| 7 | ‘ They would n't 'ave bin 'angin' off if yow 'd 'ave put a nail in 'em . |
| 8 | He would want to put a vowel in front of the " l " and say " ilake " and " ilamp " . |
| 9 | Somebody would 've put a match to it and set it on fire , we would have got money for going to deal with it . |
| 10 | This would include putting a church in every housing estate so that members can speak to their neighbours about Christ , and bring his love in practical ways to the poor and the oppressed spiritually and physically . |
| 11 | It might have been anticipated that the Criminal Law Revision Committee would seek to put an end to this uncertainty , particularly since , if any guiding principle has informed its final report , it is that the law should distinguish firmly between consensual and non-consensual sexual activity . |
| 12 | From our list we would choose to put a cross against sugar , chocolate , biscuits , sponge cake , and mints . |
| 13 | The point is , darling , that in order to make sure Huerter has a future , we would have to put a lot of money in to restore a bombed-out balance sheet . |
| 14 | In Robb v Green Lord Esher MR justified the implication of such a term : " It is impossible … that a master would have put a servant into a confidential position of this kind unless he thought that the servant would be bound to use good faith towards him ; or that the servant would not know … that the master would rely on his observance of good faith … " . |
| 15 | I thought someone would have put a bullet in his back by now . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I thought someone would have put a bullet in his back by now … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 18 | This was partly because its proposals would have put an end to the prospect of the very benefits that securitisation should bring ( because the Bank of England would have had difficulty in applying its own regulations for securitisation ) , and partly because the accounting treatment proposed seemed to us inconsistent . |
| 19 | Erm perhaps councillor would wish to put a question under response time . |