Example sentences of "they would [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was going to walk her to her other job in the bar , across the Jardin du Luxembourg ; perhaps they 'd sit in the late sunshine , near the thin young naked girl who looked exposed and hence signified Truth , the inscription said . |
| 2 | In their plight at present , they 'd settle for the same status as Hartlepool next season in the Second Division . |
| 3 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 4 | whether they 'd stay in the right shape or not . |
| 5 | No , they 'd go into the mid one would n't they ? |
| 6 | They 'd come to the Chiltern Show at Stoke Mandeville on the understanding that more than 90-thousand people were expected to turn up . |
| 7 | They 'd come from the other way from er Snade Lane not Broad Lane , they 'd come up from they 'd come farther round , round and come in th in round the back sort of thing and we we 'd got no headquarters any more . |
| 8 | ‘ Oo , ’ they 'd say at the merest smear of mud , ‘ you had a pig in here ? ’ |
| 9 | Though maybe they 'd turn in the other direction , looking for a different angle ? |
| 10 | We then sprayed them with water for our picture and the instant transformation showed just how very good they 'd look in the right setting . |
| 11 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 12 | It is generally expected that the profits firms receive as a result of collusion exceed those they would earn in the one-shot NE , otherwise they might as well not collude . |
| 13 | What was surprising was the feeling that ‘ we ’ had to be involved with electronic media : otherwise they would stagnate into the old orthodoxies , the old ideologies . |
| 14 | Pam , 63 , said : ‘ They used to come every summer for a couple of weeks and the rest of the year they would stay for the odd week . |
| 15 | I do n't know what they would do under the same circumstances . |
| 16 | Other women joined in saying , some in detail , what they would do to the German soldiers , and one woman , generally considered to be a part-time prostitute , boasted that she could see off any German . |
| 17 | Two of the great houses in Jane Austen 's novels , Donwell and Northanger , have their origin in abbeys ; but they acquire no spiritual dimension in consequence , as they would do in the Victorian novel , where the proportion of great houses grown from abbeys must surely exceed the proportion of those that , like Fountains Hall , actually did so in fact . |
| 18 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 19 | He will be able to tell them about the Labour party 's opposition to discounts , but he will not be able to tell them how much they would pay under the Labour party system , because the Labour party will not say . |
| 20 | The role of councillors would be strengthened : they would sit on the local bodies armed with the knowledge of the policies adopted at the centre of the council . |
| 21 | They would come , spend a night and then they would go through the entire paraphernalia . |
| 22 | They would go to the Consolidated Fund . " |
| 23 | If the bees found the food by smell they would go to the nearest dish ; but , in fact they went to the original dish which the first bee had been to . |
| 24 | Mr Calvert , President of Peugeot and highly critical of Britain 's stance on Japanese investment , insisted : ‘ Even if Nissan had 100 per cent local content as well as local design , they would go in the overall quota ’ . |
| 25 | Well when the tide was low , they would walk for the outer homes , then their hens and back again . |
| 26 | There they would gather about the old cathedral and sing and dance till midnight when the bells would herald in the New Year . |
| 27 | Contributors invested in them as they would in any commercial building company and their philanthropy lay in accepting a return which , at 5 per cent , was lower than they would expect on the free market . |
| 28 | They would press for the international allocation of quotas , as well as mail and air freight , and expected some Commonwealth and European support . |
| 29 | Where they would land on the southern bank of the Tay was a spit of fine , shoaling sand lifting to watery meadows . |
| 30 | as if they would move in the same circles . |