Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 And then they 'd call for a few days afterwards er whatever .
2 I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling …
3 ‘ The next day she would always phone to say that she had been in and she 'd pick on a few things that she was n't quite happy with . ’
4 there 'd just these straight powers of X , and you could do that and you 'd get to the same answer as we get to it 's just that this is a quicker way of doing it .
5 I guarantee you 'd come to the same conclusion , sir .
6 Three times eight or eight times times three does n't matter which way you do it , it 'd come to the same thing .
7 ‘ Yes , I 'd come to the same conclusion . ’
8 ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared .
9 In their plight at present , they 'd settle for the same status as Hartlepool next season in the Second Division .
10 I remember the days when bit meant a bird , but not the sort you 'd find in the same cage as the sick parrot .
11 And this had implications for their motion : Because God is immutable , the bodies He created would remain in the same condition unless they were subject to external causes .
12 " Having seen so many such unions started in the past , they knew that the new union would disappear in the same way as the others " , and good humouredly laughed Wilson 's overtures out of court .
13 He was then still slightly shy in company , though sharp and confident in other areas and among his equals , like the pool halls where he would hustle for a few dollars .
14 They would stay for a few months and go back .
15 On a smaller scale , the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces .
16 It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit .
17 It was inevitable that both would act in the same interests , and command support against putative extravagance and recklessness .
18 He did not feel that he needed to apologize , and said that if similar circumstances arose he would act in the same way .
19 There was no doubt that Hari would buy from the same supplier as the Grenfells and what if Hari had an outstanding bill ?
20 For example , virtually all university lecturers , if asked to choose concerning next year 's pay between two deals , the first being this year 's pay ( adjusted for inflation ) and the second a 50 per cent random chance of nothing and 50 per cent chance of double this year 's ( inflation-adjusted ) pay , would opt for the former .
21 As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 .
22 I do n't know what they would do under the same circumstances .
23 What I done on that night was no more than any other police officer does or would do in the same situation .
24 There are no written vowel letters in Hebrew and so the words Nazara ( as it was originally ) and Nezer would appear as the same word , simply ‘ N Z R ’ .
25 Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday .
26 As you would expect from a former private home , the bedrooms vary both in size and decor .
27 It was the kind of immaculate timing you would expect from a former BBC producer .
28 If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same .
29 The moratorium would begin on the same day as negotiations opened .
30 A pre-tax income measured on the horizontal axis would convert into the same amount of post-tax income measured on the vertical axis .
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