Example sentences of "would [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Erm so you 'd need nought in the middle .
2 ‘ I assumed you 'd do something of the sort .
3 ‘ Would I ? ’ she asked helplessly , not sure she 'd do anything of the sort .
4 I 'd give anything in the world to undo that quarrel with her ! ’
5 ‘ I mean , ’ he was saying to Caroline , 'she 'd bring something to the table and I 'd have to ask what it was .
6 That said , there 's absolutely no way I 'd stick one to the side of the Eizo T560i I use every day , purely because of the degaussing circuitry that you mention .
7 So I ‘ phoned Washburn , explained the problem and was put onto one Nick who , after a quick ferret around in various boxes , told me he 'd stick one in the post .
8 You 'd like one between the p and the s of sheeps , yes , I would agree with you there .
9 At the first whiff of something like this , you 'd hear nothing but the sound of running feet .
10 She 'd read something in the book of proverbs that summed it up perfectly .
11 Well if he came out on strike with us erm and we won if we won everything we g he 'd gain nothing in the end cos he 's in another section .
12 About thirty in each suite to differ and a master key and as I say there was five suites and they had to make a key that 'd open everyone of the fifty-five .
13 There was a tree house there and nobody knew about it so I climbed up there and I 'd shoot everyone from the roof you know .
14 ‘ Hang around Paradise Street and you 'd learn everything in the end , even if you did n't know the name . ’
15 The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m .
16 In the next chapter I will try to increase the order in our neck of the woods a little further by explaining how people are trying to fit together the partial theories I have described to form a complete unified theory that would cover everything in the universe .
17 They would prefer someone in the age range 25 — 45 .
18 A High Court judge said they would earn nothing from the book , if convicted .
19 And your answers should be couched in the terms that you would answer somebody in the pub , in that you 're giving them the information , you 're giving it to them in a clean way .
20 In this way , you could hope to get a complete unified theory , one that would predict everything in the universe .
21 Brian did not like parties , according to Alix , and had expressed fears that he would know nobody at the Headleands ' , but this was not so , for he had already engaged himself with his habitual courtesy with old Sir Anthony .
22 If , for example , we knew what animals with neocortices could do that species lacking them could n't do we would know something about the cortex without having to ablate it in a single animal .
23 HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 .
24 Twenty-four hours ago her life had seemed straightforward and uncomplicated , and now she was staying with a family she did n't know , invited to a wedding where she would know none of the guests — and extraordinarily attracted to a man with blue eyes .
25 He 'd notice and would n't mention it because mentioning would bring everything into the open again .
26 He would do nothing about the problem , and that is why he is unsuited to hold the office of Home Secretary .
27 One farmer claimed he would do nothing to the buildings until his son had been confirmed in the tenancy .
28 But Joe knew that Ashdown would do nothing of the kind .
29 Apparently Alfonso came to visit Richard and agreed to stand surety for his friend 's behaviour , guaranteeing that he would do nothing against the will of the Duke of Aquitaine or his father .
30 A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back .
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