Example sentences of "he would [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must have seen his name in the paper and reckoned he 'd pay over the odds to get it back today . ’ |
| 2 | We have a a very large brethren , er brother in the methodist ministry , and er when the mayor of Derby addressed the Methodist Conference , he said , you know , he like to come to these kind of events , and he 'd talk about the specific sort of things . |
| 3 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 4 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 5 | Then he 'd sit for a while , occasionally glancing at the figure next to him , until at last he 'd lean towards the other 's ear . |
| 6 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 7 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 8 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 9 | He 'd stand in the doorway and watch Nathan tinkering with his bike and then , when Nathan looked round , he 'd step back into the shadows . |
| 10 | Before he did something he 'd regret for the rest of his life . |
| 11 | He 'd start with the gnarled old oak tree in the graveyard . |
| 12 | ‘ The same , although I do n't know that he 'd care for the description . ’ |
| 13 | He 'd thrust a window-sized fist through a window , he 'd kick off the roof , he 'd roar until the walls crumbled , he 'd explode . |
| 14 | He 'd go to the centre of town , would n't he . |
| 15 | If he 'd got any sense at all ( which he probably did n't ) he 'd go to the bank and try to draw out money . |
| 16 | Because he had too much time , he 'd go to the club afternoon and night . |
| 17 | He must have spent all last night developing and printing them ( as if he 'd go to the chemist 's ! |
| 18 | That Kenny Everett said he 'd go to the funeral . |
| 19 | After lunch he 'd go into the city and come back with a whole armful of roses , the price of many shirts . ’ |
| 20 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 21 | And as for deliberately lending himself — why , he would cheerfully hew off Owen 's head in fair fight in the field , and never lose a night 's sleep for it , though he 'd grieve for the loss of a grand fighter . |
| 22 | But he 'd try for the rest of his life to harm the boy if he could . |
| 23 | He knew what he 'd find in the wardrobe upstairs if he ever had to search the place . |
| 24 | Of course he 'd jump at the chance of wearing the most famous shirt in the Premier Division . |
| 25 | The military leader , General Saw Maung said he 'd abide by the outcome . |
| 26 | ( If only Lawrence was here , I thought , he 'd cut through the crap . |
| 27 | Anyway , what happened do you see , the ones that he 'd cut in the beginning , when he bought the place . |
| 28 | But equally often he 'd collapse in the middle of a sentence or whistling a tune . |
| 29 | I got offered a part-time job in a bakery at the weekends , and he said he 'd look after the kids , but he never did , so I could n't do it . |
| 30 | So he 'd design a new one , and he 'd write to the guy at Quality Street and say look , I think , I 'm a graphic designer , I think your box is a load of rubbish , I 've designed this , will you pay me for it ? |