Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 2 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have told it at once , ’ she said ruefully , ‘ but that it would not have helped him . |
| 4 | Far from hearing only half-an-hour from Michael Heseltine 's statement on the pit closures , a news network would have carried it at length . |
| 5 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 6 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 7 | The man in question , one of those footmanly types , Twit ( first class ) — pencil thin spray-on hair and pained costive expression — was , as they would have put it at his public school , ‘ being ragged ’ by rough children from the village . |
| 8 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |