Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] you would [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Daily Telegraph If you did not put aluminium in you would have water that was cloudy .
2 The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ?
3 says if if there were a tape record on you would say , Now what are we having for tea ?
4 How many of the rest of you would say that you got where you are today , in your area of expertise , with trial and error .
5 ‘ No , of course it does n't ; I 'm a fool to think a woman like you would give my sister a second thought . ’
6 But I would have imagined that an intelligent woman like you would know how to get herself out of it again . ’
7 It is almost certain that an offer of mediation from you would give rise to an irresistible movement in favour of negotiations … .
8 ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’
9 But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that
10 And on H Little H and I 'm skipping through them because I 'm sure a lot of you would like to get to the tea pot .
11 Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card .
12 I mean where you buy the , the thing from you 'd think the seldom , the spares as you want them about every four months
13 I have one of my pretty rare fits of le cafard , and I thought a letter to you would help .
14 The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really .
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