Example sentences of "they would [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the point of view of certain owners , these diet-shifts are nothing but a nuisance , but if ever , for some dramatic reason , the cat found itself without its usual owner , they would stand it in good stead . |
| 2 | Thank you everybody who said they would do them for next year . |
| 3 | They would do you on one charge but they always laid three against you and you would have no escape . |
| 4 | Jackson said : ‘ I told Nigel he was too thin to play rugby and that they would break him in half . ’ |
| 5 | Erm th there 's just a comment I 'd like to make that they have said that they would place it on that figure report on our . |
| 6 | I tell you , if she was out in Hollywood they would send her to one of those beauty farms , where they starve them and batter them about and knock them into shape ; then they would give her a plastic nose , or make the one she 's got more pointed , put false eyelashes on her , give her hair an expert cut , and walla ! she 'd be a sensation . |
| 7 | Well they would move them round this fella himself , but it 's gon na be a hell of a lot of money to get them to do that . |
| 8 | The monkeys had to be deprived of their regular food and accustomed to the peanuts for weeks before they would take them with any readiness , let alone treat the nuts as rewards for appropriate behaviour . |
| 9 | There 's no way they would touch it at all . |
| 10 | They would put you on different jobs so you 'd hardly see one another . |