Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] you would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wanted to make a banner for instance you would highlight banner on the main menu , then choose ‘ font ’ , and choose one of the nine fancy fonts provided . |
| 2 | And I will have a piece of tape which says , ‘ Well yes of course you would expect the Chairman of the County Council to get food poisoning in this particular restaurant because we have prosecuted him three times . |
| 3 | Of course you would survey the outside |
| 4 | Though of course you would have done anyway . |
| 5 | If you have a set amount to spend and a glance through the adverts shows that the sort of horse you would like carries a rather bigger asking price , you 'll be wasting your and someone else 's time by going to look . |
| 6 | You were asked recently to vote on the forms of action you would prefer to take in support of the shop 's position on the reduction of pay differentials . |
| 7 | It is the type of attitude you would expect from a man who cites Buck Shelford as his role model and who learned his trade in the best of all academies . |
| 8 | It was not the sort of place you would choose to be born in if you had such a choice , but Kylie Ann Minogue was born there anyway . |
| 9 | His terracotta-tiled house with salmon pink shutters is hardly the sort of place you would expect a wealthy actor to buy . |
| 10 | Yes , that 's , that 's the kind of place you would find it . |
| 11 | Only when you have made your plans , decided on your work sequence , bought your appliances and thought about the style of room you would like to create , can you focus on the treatment of the rest : the framework of walls , floor , window and ceiling as well as the sort of tiles , splashback and worktop you would like . |
| 12 | The newspaper published an article alleging that material distributed from St Botolph 's has included ‘ the kind of stuff you would expect to find in a San Francisco bath-house , not a Church of England ’ , and , more broadly , that ‘ militant clerical homosexuality has now spread to a point where many of the ancient City churches are open pick-up joints . ’ |
| 13 | When you know what the job is and what sort of person you would like to employ your next step is to look in the ideal place for applicants of the right calibre . |
| 14 | He was the largest and hairiest and pimpliest and dirtiest of them all , not at all the sort of person you would wish to meet up an alley on a dark night . |
| 15 | I have looked at your planet Uulaa , and I know what sorts of fun you would seek there . |
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| 17 | He certainly did n't look like the sort of friend you would have , Chris . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Is it the kind of machinery you would expect to be ordered for the factory ? ’ |
| 19 | Not the sort of mistake you would expect from a mammal or a man . |
| 20 | Write down the names of four records/pieces of music you would use in advertisements . |
| 21 | a bit more about the the range of employment you would envisage on the sort of fifty hectare site that you 've talked about . |
| 22 | Item No. 1 : this winged lion of St Mark in a gondola is the typical sort of item you would expect to find attached to the top of expensive furniture . |
| 23 | Constable Coupland is the type of fellow you would want handling these matters . |
| 24 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing you would do — to make yourself look big — to make me look a fool . |
| 26 | The great thing about library music is that it is fairly non-commital : you can go in all kinds of directions and you 're asked to provide music in a certain style , which may not be the sort of thing you would do naturally , but it 's still enjoyable to do . |
| 27 | Killing Elinor was the kind of thing you would need years of study to accomplish . |
| 28 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 29 | In addition to the aerodrome forecast , the Met 's other principal offering is a regional forecast which again follows the kind of format you would expect to find in the various sources at the airfield . |
| 30 | Maybe British Rail should start to reserve seats according to what sort of conversation you would like to have . |