Example sentences of "would [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the way he was looking at her , you 'd think the damned car park , and the hotel , belonged to him ! |
| 2 | What , what people had , had Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and they perhaps came for their order on the , or their weekend joint on the Friday and I 'd make the whole ticket up and they 'd pay and then that ticket would be torn off and if they wanted that meat delivered on the Saturday , that would be delivered with that ticket on the top . |
| 3 | I 'd have thought you 'd prefer the romantic idea . ’ |
| 4 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 5 | ‘ When I ran out , I 'd paint the white ones brown ! ’ |
| 6 | They 'd answer the outside world by giving their own authorised version of the intervening years . |
| 7 | Oh no quite probably matinee and then the early evening which I thought those people were coming out from look and erm , and this one , good grief fancy doing that be here half a day , you 'd think you 'd earn the damn money would n't you ? |
| 8 | If they did n't have their own hair they 'd kn they 'd know the emotional effect of hair loss . |
| 9 | There was plenty of water now , and I thought I 'd explore the whole waterfront of Winter Marsh . |
| 10 | Not the Mercedes — she 'd recognise the throaty diesel engine of Fernando 's car anywhere . |
| 11 | Moving on automatic pilot , she forced herself to tidy up the make-up room , washing sponges and organising the cosmetics she 'd need the following evening when the play had its first-night performance . |
| 12 | Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card . |
| 13 | I 'd feel the local doctors , your local G P's are needing to be brought more into to line with it . |
| 14 | I 'd feel the prickly cases through my gloves , |
| 15 | I do n't suppose she 'd smoke the ordinary ones . |
| 16 | We started off in the old days , just tuning the top string down to D. It 's funny , but we used to do that before we 'd tune the bottom ones down . |
| 17 | But I would say that for recording I 'd use the passive sound ; it 's warmer , more mellow , and would sound good — although I 'd still prefer to gig with the Vester . |
| 18 | ‘ They 'd ring the big stores in London , give them an order in the morning and it would be on the train in the afternoon , and here by evening . |
| 19 | Christ , I 'd go AABB if I did n't think it 'd tank the final couplet . |
| 20 | But by the time he was assessed as fit for open prison in Britain he 'd become the leading figure in Australia 's organised crime world … involved in drug smuggling … fraud and firearms offences |
| 21 | Of course I 'd like the other things , but it 's just not relevant to the relationship . ’ |
| 22 | I 'll have that from Father Christmas and one of these from Fudge I 'd like the ultimate warrior from Fudge or Hacksaw Jim or Macho King or Robert . |
| 23 | Customer : ‘ I 'd like the stewed apples please , but without the custard . ’ |
| 24 | It dwarfed , for instance , the monument on the river bank to the Renaissance explorers and circumnavigators who 'd set the tiny country on the path to greatness . |
| 25 | I was hoping we 'd avoid the political discussion , Betty . |
| 26 | At the end of a special evening , or rather at its high point , you would hear Gary playing a certain intro , and you 'd hear the whole bar going quiet as people recognised it . |
| 27 | and even this early in the song , I have often heard Madame falter and stop , and just open her arms towards us , palms outwards , in a simple refusal to sing , just letting Gary carry the phrase on the piano — and of course we all knew the words anyway and so could hear them even when she was n't singing , sometimes you 'd hear the whole crowd singing almost inaudibly along with her . |
| 28 | Given the chance , I suppose I 'd take the Flying Carrot to Bombay again , though by that time I 'd have taken parachute lessons . |
| 29 | I 'd read the various bits and pieces a couple of times now , looking for something deep and mysterious in it all but not finding anything ; I 'd even done a little research of my own , and discovered through mum that dad had some more of Rory 's papers in his study ; she 'd promised she 'd try and look them out for me . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd read The Lonely Londoners and I could relate to it from what my parents had told me about their early days in London [ before moving back to Nigeria when Agbenugba was ten ] . |