Example sentences of "[noun] on [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
| 2 | As the tyre rolled , each point on it would enter the contact zone . |
| 3 | From this point on he would aim his life in a new direction . |
| 4 | says if if there were a tape record on you would say , Now what are we having for tea ? |
| 5 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
| 6 | But alack , it does no bleat and bleat as if the little heart on it would burst . |
| 7 | Any attack on him would bring down excommunication on you . |
| 8 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 9 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 10 | A school report on it would read ‘ Good try — could do better ’ . |
| 11 | Fine golden hairs , which but for the sunlight on them would have been invisible , shone against the soft brown skin of her thigh . |