Example sentences of "[pron] would [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would bike to the tea shop in the High Street and see what blends they had . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought we really would make a new start , that I would sort of … make him blossom . ’ |
| 3 | And at the beginning of the year , I would sort of work out which weeks I want those mailings to go out . |
| 4 | and it was just a case of erm pot luck , I would sort of brought it out and looked at it and , er no it was n't cooked , it was cooked on the edges so I turned it over and turned it round and put it back in again . |
| 5 | and I would sort of put that in there . |
| 6 | I can honestly say he 's the sort of bloke I would sort of try not to get lumbered with at a party or somewhere like that I mean I do n't mind I did n't mind talking to her but I find her |
| 7 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 8 | On Saturday afternoons and Sundays I would cycle into the countryside with bait , rod and tackle to explore some new stretch of water , looking for fish . |
| 9 | On weekdays I would cycle by his home |
| 10 | However , applying such a model directly to the topic of attitudes towards the monarchy would neglect the role of implicit factors , especially the implicit justifications which could be called upon should an argumentative attack be mounted or the implicit criticisms which would surface into explicitness under changed historical circumstances . |
| 11 | Unfortunately " they did not have information on any program which would de with a small issue of some 500 items . |
| 12 | Every day of the season she would travel in her carriage and six to Ashdown Park on top of the downs , where she would course for hares with her magnificent greyhounds and walk for twenty-five miles . |
| 13 | As she plodded through her notes she decided that at the end of the month she would hand in her notice , and on the day she left she would brandish Elise 's diary before his eyes . |
| 14 | and , and er she would sort of say oh and here 's a theatre make a wee bit effort yes that might be the answer |
| 15 | ‘ Do I look like the sort of person who would glory in anything ? ’ |
| 16 | Enter climber-turned-platform-builder Mark Cole ( opposite ) , who would shin up the chosen tree , attach a climbing rope , and then accompany Mike on each subsequent climb . |
| 17 | At one time , the apple trees were proving a great temptation to young men who would shin over the wall at night . |
| 18 | So you would kind of know when you saw what colour th that it would be that |
| 19 | ‘ I want you to know we did n't use any of this nonsense ’ , Koch protested between the titters ; ‘ … you would sort of start down that road and get so self-conscious you could n't do it . ’ |
| 20 | But you 'd perhaps go three or four times before the baby was born and er just see everything was alright and you 'd know which way the baby was lying a and which way it was going to er you know come and if you thought there was going to be any problems well you know then you , you would sort of let the doctor know and , and he 'd decide then . |
| 21 | And er probably they 'd be interested to know how you would sort of handle that . |
| 22 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 23 | By one o'clock he 'd be staggered by the reels of shiny new bureaucratic red tape and return to the hotel fort where we would lunch by the pool , talk , plan , watch , and he would slowly recuperate . |
| 24 | After a light lunch we would siesta in our bedroom , and not emerge until sunset . |
| 25 | if anybody can sort of if you write in English , maybe could send it to you , could get it translated at the Stortford , oh that might be very useful , erm , I mean , I 'll certainly do some letters and if anybody else wants to , if they let me know I 'll let them have the addresses for them , erm , there are fax as well and that suppose to be a quicker way than writing a letter actually than send through a fax , right , erm , if anybody can then we could send them to you and , and ask you to send it on , and we would sort of postage , would be covered would it Margaret ? |
| 26 | We 'd put on dresses and dance to Abba records and pretend to be Abba and we would prance about the bedroom or lounge singing into hairbrushes . |
| 27 | If someone 's dress or tie were askew , no one would dream of asking them to move . ’ |
| 28 | In normal commercial life , no one would dream of doing such a thing . |
| 29 | No one would dream of putting a ‘ Vote Socialist ’ poster in a front window or an ‘ I back Chirac ’ sticker on a car bumper . |
| 30 | So ten to the minus three o No one would dream of putting of using percent . |