Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] you 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's a super guy , the kind of person you 'd like your sister to go out with , ’ one of his handlers said . |
| 2 | A sign told visiting gentlemen to remove their hats ; it was the kind of sign you 'd see in the Duomo in Florence ; in some parts of America , war still demands what passes for reverence . |
| 3 | Look through magazines to find the kind of style you 'd like . |
| 4 | I know I could n't begin to give you the kind of life you 'd have with Dunbar , but I 'd do everything in my power to make you happy . ’ |
| 5 | His followers sold out the Hammersmith Odeon before any major label knew who he was , and more recently , when he appeared on the black talent show The 291 Club simply to present an award , he received the kind of reception you 'd expect for the ghost of Marvin Gaye . |
| 6 | If there 's any possibility of anything to be gained from this operation — and in the absence of the kind of labour you 'd prefer to have on a job like this — I thought an extra pair of hands might be welcome . ’ |
| 7 | Well it was just so funny , it 's just the kind of place you 'd expect to see naughty boys , there was you sitting to the |
| 8 | In other words , it 's the kind of food you 'd get from a restaurant in Chinatown . |
| 9 | In that sense , The Memory Palace is exactly the kind of show you 'd expect Art Futura to produce . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said . |
| 11 | At the very least NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU 'D EXPECT FROM THE FARM . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , its anorexic attractions are exactly the kind of thing you 'd expect from people who only formed a band in the first place to get off the dole . |
| 13 | He says that the smoke is drifting through the woods , it 's hardly the type of place you 'd go for a quiet walk . |
| 14 | Okay , the task was to ignore the right hand bracket and to sort cards based on the left hand bracket In fact you 'd sort them into two piles , not four . |
| 15 | Oh the erm if there is a sort of major beneficiary that Carpet Right because of course we owned the in them fairly decent straight throughout Currys , Dixons and some of the market people Quicksave erm , the sort of spread you 'd expect on any retail park you know . |
| 16 | Its pointed head has the sort of bill you 'd expect to see on a prehistoric bird with a notch at the end like an aircraft , s radar . |
| 17 | Those who knew him remember an amiable man , but not necessarily the sort of person you 'd expect to end up in the White House . |
| 18 | I look grimy , bad-tempered , just the sort of guy you 'd expect to find hiding in a woodpile in Deptford when there 's trouble about . |
| 19 | He did well with the theatre and the media lot because he treated them contemptuously , co-opting Rory Collins as a fellow scourge of sloppy liberals , a man who for all his cash and flash was the real thing , the sort of guy you 'd go into the jungle with , the sort of guy who was his father 's son . |
| 20 | This is not the sort of statement you 'd expect from a man who won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the NCR ( National Cash Registers ) non-fiction prize with his first book . |
| 21 | ‘ Not the sort of chap you 'd want to be captain of a team . ’ |
| 22 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 23 | ( b ) Possession is exactly the sort of book you 'd expect to win the Booker Prize . |
| 24 | Erm but of course to provide erm electricity on a larger scale , you ca n't put these things too close together , you need about er a thousand of those to , for example , to replace say a power station like Didcot and er and a thousand of these windmills would o occupy about three hundred square miles , and this is what three hundred square miles looks like er it 's , it 's the major part of , of central L you would n't put them in central London of course but erm gives you some idea of the sort of area you 'd have to devote to wind farms if you were to use this particular type of er of energy . |
| 25 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I used to go back there on holiday , but it 's not the sort of place you 'd want to visit now , ’ he says . |
| 27 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |
| 28 | I think it 's the sort of thing you 'd make damn sure you know , despite you 're English . |
| 29 | That 's just the sort of thing you 'd like ! ’ |
| 30 | and this would , you would think , because there 's a shift back of capital to agriculture you 'd get a rise in agricultural wage rates because that changes the capital to labour ratio again and so this would counteract the movement . |