Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If you and I were doing it you you 'd think about a lot |
2 | You are the last one I 'd throw from a lifeboat . ’ |
3 | I thought I 'd stay for a while . ’ |
4 | Umm , err … to make it more fun for both of us , we could perhaps have dinner and you could show me how you 'd behave in a date situation . |
5 | Taken at face value , they 'd result in a college place and authentic P-Cas documents which could then be used for fraud . |
6 | I was a bit bored this lunchtime , so I though I 'd type in a bit of a report that I read in the Daily Mail about the Hibs game . |
7 | He comes over well as a person , with all the outer confidence you 'd expect of a company representative . |
8 | That 's about what you 'd expect for a tractor of this size . |
9 | The facilities on the A4 are the kind you 'd expect on a unit costing rather more . |
10 | The quality of workmanship is what you 'd expect on an instrument costing just under thirteen hundred pounds and even if it was n't a limited edition I 'd still say it was worth the money . |
11 | Like you 'd expect in a palace . |
12 | The lasers are extraordinary , the sound system all you 'd expect from a custom-built club , and guest DJs travel in from across Europe — in one week last month , Brit visitors included Trevor Fung , Paul Oakenfold , Mrs Woods , Fat Tony and Danny Rampling . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | As you 'd expect from a hotel of this calibre , the bedrooms are lavish and extremely comfortable . |
15 | Everything you 'd expect from a Summer holiday — yet so much more |
16 | But if the tyre had not been expanded enough , we 'd have to have levers and gently lever and hammer it on , something in the same way as you 'd do with a bicycle tyre . |
17 | I 'd head for an alleyway if I were you . |
18 | Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’ |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
21 | He 'd look at a problem and come up with a totally different answer to the one you 'd expect … |
22 | you 'd look for a value of X that you could e make . |
23 | On the whole I 'd look for a combination of striking colours and light . |
24 | On the whole I 'd look for a combination of colours and light . |
25 | ‘ If I had been what you 'd imagined , I 'd look like an assassin , and you 'd say I was too obvious . ’ |
26 | The 21-year-old from Darlington says : ‘ I used to get up at five in the morning and go cleaning at Presto , then I 'd work in a chippy from eleven to two and then later I 'd do some child-minding . |
27 | He 'd bark at a bird wo n't it ? |
28 | I apologised for being curt with the lecherous one and said that maybe we 'd meet for a drink . |
29 | So all you 'd do is you 'd cast about for a friend , you 'd decide on a price that you would accept and if it was a friend , if you had to sell it and you needed fifteen quid to buy a pair of shoes or whatever , erm and you 'd like twenty , you 'd turn to a mate and go , Have you got twenty quid ? and he he 'd say yes or no . |
30 | ‘ It was something she 'd read in a book , she said . ’ |