Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 I 'd stare at them for hours .
2 I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself .
3 I mean , I could go from anywhere , Lowerick down to the borders and I 'd I 'd be , I 'd feel at home , but I would n't feel I mean , I went down to England for something like four days , and like from Berwick , ma , about it must be about ten miles from Berwick to the Scottish , the Scotland thing and I was a craning my head out the bus window to see it !
4 I 'd eat at his restaurant .
5 The dogs themselves I 'd collect at the last minute .
6 Often , I would n't bother to try things on — I 'd look at the price tag and think ‘ I 've got to have this , ’ especially if I thought it was a ‘ bargain ’ I might not see again .
7 Every month I 'd look at my diary with a feeling of dread and try to keep the week free .
8 Then I 'd look at the fields of beans , glossy in the moonlight , hanging fat and glossy .
9 Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’
10 I ca n't say I 've ever worried about it , I just thought I 'd look at it when I got there .
11 I 'd look at that .
12 Yeah , but you see , I 'd look at you and I would n't even notice !
13 I mean the way I 'd look at it , would look at it if something of happened to John , well I still go
14 I 'd jump at the chance , you know that . ’
15 ‘ That I 'd jump at the chance of marrying you .
16 I 've got better odds than I 'd get at Russian roulette — twenty to one , at least .
17 ‘ Do you really imagine I 'd bellow at Finn in the street ? ’ she enquired .
18 If they did n't move , I 'd state at them and concentrate , hoping they would .
19 When we bought it he told me I 'd have at least ten years because the make of it is it 's a good make .
20 ‘ You would n't think I 'd listen at all , because I 'm so chatty , ’ she says .
21 I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together .
22 Judging from the general appearance of the body I 'd say at least two to three hours , but that 's a guess .
23 I 'd say at least a dozen . ’
24 Yeah more than that I 'd say at least a decade .
25 I 'd like at least to have a picture in my mind 's eye of where everything is . ’
26 Erm so erm that 's the one I 'd recommend at the moment .
27 ‘ I said I 'd ring at half past .
28 Up and down and over and over , again and again and I 'd marvel at the bulk of prayer they made in any one day .
29 I would laugh at myself because sometimes I would pull it off and other times I 'd go to reach over real fast and I 'd just go ‘ Aaaaaargh . ’
30 But after a week or so I was acclimatised , and I would laugh at the discomforts of half-asphyxiated visitors .
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