Example sentences of "[pron] would do [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd do those clubs where they served chicken in a basket . |
| 2 | The 21-year-old from Darlington says : ‘ I used to get up at five in the morning and go cleaning at Presto , then I 'd work in a chippy from eleven to two and then later I 'd do some child-minding . |
| 3 | Each morning , I made a list , in coloured pens , of the things I would do that day . |
| 4 | He asked if I would do this play , and I agreed . ’ |
| 5 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 6 | I would do any job you wished , and to the very best of my ability , if only you 'd give me the chance . ’ |
| 7 | In 1936 , Bertrand Russell , after rehearsing the expected consequences of a new war , posed the question : ‘ Can we imagine any great modern war which would do more good than harm ? ’ |
| 8 | Taxes raised on what is reckoned to be the world 's largest untaxed industry would help governments spend money on treatment and education , which would do more good than the billions currently spent on attempting to throttle the criminal supply of drugs of all sorts . |
| 9 | Later , she 'd unpack , later she 'd explore Marigot Bay , later she 'd organise herself some supper , later she 'd start feeling excited , privileged , ecstatically lucky to be here … later she 'd do all kinds of things , but right now ten solid hours of travelling , the latter part in that bone-shaker of a van , had left her utterly spent . |
| 10 | I do n't think you 'd do any harm to us . |
| 11 | He 's the sort of creep who 'd do that kind of thing . ’ |
| 12 | Hurt that he could think she would do that pest of an interview through Lubor , she was certain then that she did n't even like Ven Gajdusek — much less was she attracted to him ! |
| 13 | And is it , I mean it used to just be men who would do these things and |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing would do more damage to job prospects … across Europe , than the imposition of further tax or regulatory burdens on employers . |
| 15 | That Castro had come to regard the Centre-Left as an obstacle to the course he wanted the revolution to pursue was made clear on 19 October , when he warned , ‘ It would be better if those who prefer to remain on the borderline in these hours … become enemies ; that is , they would do more damage as companions than enemies ’ ( Hoy ( newspaper of the PSP ) , 21 October 1959 , p. 3 , in González : 1968 , p. 51 ) . |
| 16 | So when they are doing a piece of work on the senses they would do this worksheet as part of that either as homework in the school library or in the local library , or as part of a classroom exercise with the teacher and the librarian present … |
| 17 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 18 | To well they used to call what they call them a labour man you know he 'd do any sort of work . |
| 19 | ‘ True , ’ the Friar said , ‘ that is certainly possible , but a wise man 's life is to a large extent a commerce in probabilities , if he were to deal in possibilities he would do little trade . |
| 20 | He would do many things to keep her happy , but sex was not one of them . |
| 21 | One day , or night , he would do that walk again , retrace his steps for the sake of nostalgia . |
| 22 | And of course I do n't think he would do any good at it , his quite a quite , shy . |
| 23 | Erm , we are today , going to do the Black Sheep of the Family , erm , because erm , erm , does n't feel that he he 's up to doing the one that he thought he would do this week . |
| 24 | Lord Salisbury , who had a poor opinion of Clarke 's abilities ( as had Halsbury ) , wrote in much perplexity to the Lord Chancellor but saying that the Rolls should be offered to Clarke ‘ on party grounds ’ because he would do less harm as a judge than as Attorney-General . |
| 25 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 26 | But I do n't think it would do any good . ’ |
| 27 | Anabelle felt like curling up in a ball and plugging her ears until they all went away — and she would have , too , if she had thought it would do any good . |
| 28 | She hardly dared to believe it would do any good . |
| 29 | Briefly he wondered if it would do any good to tell the ship 's administrator that the presence of the newly appointed Admiral of the White on an ordinary survey mission was not an occurrence of special significance . |
| 30 | I do n't think it would do any good to go on talking . ’ |