Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then we 'd 've gone down a different avenue |
| 2 | Whatever yous want , it 's up to yous , if yous want your shoes today I 'll get them but I was thinking if we 'd 've went down the town today |
| 3 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to stay down a little while — hear more about your family , too . |
| 5 | Heather Bailey said her husband told her how he 'd cut cut down a parachute in hangar 8 at RAF Hullavington and lit it with a match . |
| 6 | I 'd have to take down the shore , shore tomorrow . |
| 7 | Of course , you 'd have to track down the right person . ’ |
| 8 | And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't have too many large office blocks in the North-East so I 'd have to knock down a number of housing schemes . |
| 10 | ‘ None of us would want to drop down a division , so we would have to close down the shop and go back to our day jobs . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 12 | Few meetings would dare to vote down a pay rise , but the threat of such a vote — and the awkward , embarrassing questions that might accompany it — would be a valuable restraint . |
| 13 | I wish that the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues would stop running down the improvements that have been made in the national health service . |
| 14 | I would have slowed down a lot more than that . |
| 15 | ‘ None of us would want to drop down a division , so we would have to close down the shop and go back to our day jobs . ’ |
| 16 | Was not the reason why the House thought it not plain that their lordships believed that Parliament did not have this situation in mind and would have cut down the wording if it had ? |
| 17 | An egoist who tries to ground his ethic in ‘ Be aware ’ would have to break down the analogy between personal and other viewpoints ; and to do so he could not appeal to the most obvious difference , that while ‘ here ’ and ‘ there ’ are exchanged by the agent 's movements , and ‘ now ’ is continuously changing into ‘ then ’ , he remains to himself unalterably ‘ I ’ . |
| 18 | Child 2 : ‘ Mummy says that in the old days daddy would have worked down a coal mine to make power for people , |
| 19 | We would have to cut down a lot of woodland , we would have to alter our environment substantially , and that is something that people have to bear in mind when advocating free-range . |
| 20 | Had those early Communists received their education in a contemporary society , understood themselves and others better , they would have laid down a rather different and more workable framework for the new society . |
| 21 | I believe that the opposition should have insisted on having a vote on a motion in which the government could have asked for support , and we would have put down an amendment saying that we thought that sanctions should have been given longer . |
| 22 | If the Prime Minister had meant what she said , and if the Secretary of State — whom I am delighted to see taking an interest in the Bill had conveyed her message properly , the Minister would have put down an amendment , and would by this time have leapt to his feet to accept amendment No. 3 . |
| 23 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 24 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 25 | Reactor operation could be manipulated , though for a PWR this would involve shutting down the reactor more frequently than usual . |
| 26 | What with the coffee , it would help to slow down the symptoms even further . |