Example sentences of "would [verb] it [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 | You 'd plan it around the main course the main the main meat . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But you 'd regret it in the long run , I think , would n't you ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Portes suggests that UN agencies , using a more restricted definition of informal proletariat , would equate it with the poorest 40 per cent . |
| 14 | A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . " |
| 15 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 16 | Melts that had frozen within this subconscious lithosphere would enrich it in the same elements that are enriched in the crust , so it has not been possible to distinguish between these theories . |
| 17 | He said if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 18 | He said that if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed , he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 19 | Then I tried it on the pasture , but that was a bit rough , so I thought I would ride it down the new road through the iron gate leading out of my land . |
| 20 | They would sell it at the best price they could get for it . |
| 21 | He startled Philip with him , so impressed Emlyn Williams with a recitation on a London street in a blackout that Williams could recall it precisely forty years later , and introduced anybody he thought would appreciate it to the dark-vowelled , consonant-cracking language of the man whose most famous work would be Under Milk Wood , whose first performance — on radio and stage — would star Richard Burton . |
| 22 | We submit our CVs with a joint covering letter explaining about job sharing , our reasons for choosing it , and how we would apply it to the advertised post . |
| 23 | Without that proof , we would hold it against the conditional theory that it can not even show that we know that we are not brains in a vat . |
| 24 | go to the supermarket and I would bung it of the best of stuff . |
| 25 | Nor was there any reason to believe they would get it over the next thirty years , either . |