Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " If you had an ounce of sense in your brain , you 'd think of some plan to get us out of our difficulty ! " |
| 2 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 3 | The only point I 'd make on that sir , you 'll see from that that the ten mile limit does extend across the county boundary into Humberside . |
| 4 | Some might be tempted to say in touch with reality , but I think I 'd prefer on this occasion to say in touch with another dimension of reality . |
| 5 | But we said we 'd build in local stone and blend in with the area . |
| 6 | Sometimes they 'd bump into each other on the doorstep ! |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd steal from another woman ? ’ said Melanie indignantly . |
| 8 | Not that you 'd know about that sort of feeling , would you ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd wait for that call . ’ |
| 10 | The JD Tele wins out on knobs , since the Signature 's volume control is horribly graunchy — again , not what you 'd expect for this kind of money . |
| 11 | As you 'd expect with this age group , there is an immediate barrage of responses . |
| 12 | As you 'd expect in this part of the world , the route passes through spectacular countryside . |
| 13 | erm I think it ca n't be bad for you because you do quite a lot of the same exercise as you 'd do in proper aerobics |
| 14 | The tasks he 'd give to any apprentice , until you prove yourself . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , nothing like I 'd imagined I 'd feel in this situation . ’ |
| 16 | Er I 've known er one bloke he , he 'd send for a pint of Shipstons beer when it was sixpence a pint , and then he 'd send for another pint and he 'd be drunk , or , or he 'd be ready f to fight anybody that wanted to fight him . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , they 'd sound like this load of old cobblers . |
| 18 | ‘ Ernest did n't say , but he promised he 'd look in some time soon , so you can ask him yourself . ’ |
| 19 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 20 | See perhaps I 'd like to more section to . |
| 21 | Er and therefore erm I think we 'd like to some degree wait and see a bit still because er I think that you know economic circumstances of this particular moment mean that we may just have to consider that further of seeing how things progress really between now and October . |
| 22 | Then , every night I 'd return to that street and live in one room with my mother . |
| 23 | He was n't sure how they 'd take to this rethink of Swan Lake . |
| 24 | Then I found a place that was clearly headlined as a singles " bar , and no one tried to keep me out Now I 'd read about these VD workshops in Scum and Miasma , both of which adopted a markedly high-handed line . |
| 25 | I 'd read about this technique in my books , but it was only when I did the course that I realised that , although it would work for sparrowhawks and most other hunting birds , Dawn 's hunting did not depend on speed . |
| 26 | I 'd read of automatic writing so in my grief I tried it , spending many hours holding a felt-tip pen over paper . |
| 27 | They are built like South African rugby forwards , and they 'd cut through most opposition like a spoon through custard . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd proceed on that basis if I were you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't think I 'd go to that length for a belt , do you ? ’ |
| 30 | A layout of that kind would have the advantage that you could leave your work out on the desk in the room and go back to it later — you would n't need to tidy up before you started on another piece of work , because you 'd go to another room to do it . |