Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd head for an alleyway if I were you . |
| 3 | ‘ If I had been what you 'd imagined , I 'd look like an assassin , and you 'd say I was too obvious . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I knew she 'd have on an apron , ’ Carlie said to the social worker . |
| 5 | One of them bought a ticket and he 'd go to an exit , open the door and his mates would flood in . |
| 6 | I 'd piss on an ancestor as soon as trace one . |
| 7 | Hereford and Worcester ambulance and fire teams wanted to test how they 'd cope with an incident some 176 feet up . |
| 8 | If he called , she 'd pretend to be out , she 'd hide in an outhouse , hide in the straw in the barn until he gave up his snooping and went away . |
| 9 | I was soon in Leicester Square , which was already packed with people who 'd come for an evening out . |
| 10 | He 'd come for an evening 's entertainment and , though the food was good , he 'd reckoned on stronger meat . |
| 11 | ‘ She 'd come from an agency . |
| 12 | One irate caller promised : ‘ If I was down to my last spoonful of petrol , with a hundred miles still to go , I 'd drive past an Elf station . ’ |
| 13 | They 'd dine in an eating-house and go to Moorfields where foaming bears , huge-tusked hogs and fat bulls were baited by bloody-mouthed mastiffs . |
| 14 | Because the amount at which the liability is initially recognised is reduced , compared with more conventional accounting , the finance charges over the term of the debt are increased , and would normally be similar to those which would arise on an issue of non-convertible debt . |
| 15 | What happened was , when we 'd go there to rehearse on a Friday night , he would disappear for an hour or so . |
| 16 | Old Mother Jacobsen knew that she did not have unlimited time to tell the story of Marie Grubbe to Elisabeth Danziger ; Elisabeth would stay for an hour and then be on her way . |
| 17 | At Tangier , he would stay at an hotel nearby . ’ |
| 18 | it would crunch like an apple . |
| 19 | He told the Federal Assembly that the devaluation , the second in less than four months , would compensate for an excess in public spending during the past nine months equivalent to US$5,400 million . |
| 20 | Thus while the committees hoped their work would act as an antidote to the apparent tendency ‘ to reduce workpeople to the mental condition of animated machines ’ , they also sought to encourage an all-round improvement in efficiency and a training designed to develop ‘ the habit of regular industry … a healthy growth in mind and body ’ , the inculcation of thrift , and the ever popular ‘ discipline ’ . |
| 21 | Two types are of interest here ; in one an innovation , usually already in existence , was introduced by an outside agency to an influential person ( adviser , headteacher , administrator ) who would act as an intermediary . |
| 22 | There was one Moluccan slave , Enrique , who would act as an interpreter if the crossing was accomplished . |
| 23 | At the closing ceremony Mitterrand expressed the hope that the conference would act as an impulse for ideas to become concrete steps . |
| 24 | This would act as an incentive for conservation and would also enable poor countries to realize some of the value of the resources . |
| 25 | It would act as an incentive . |
| 26 | Alone again , she eyed the soup in her mug malevolently , convinced it would act as an emetic . |
| 27 | He would wait for an hour or so , reading a newspaper or catching up on paperwork , then he would go to the McCausland counter and hire a car . |
| 28 | He would know in an instant if the Bogeyman made a move , or if anyone left the kitchen by the doorway into the hall . |
| 29 | There has been difference of opinion not merely over the content of any explanation , but also over what would count as an explanation . |
| 30 | Having experienced both , I know that we would benefit from an awareness of the relativity of all healing approaches , and a recognition of the universality of their concerns . |