Example sentences of "would [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 2 | Before you 'd go to a rave and it would be : only Black people go to that rave , only white people go to that rave ; now it 's merged . |
| 3 | I 'd go to a list broker of my acquaintance . |
| 4 | With her head down , concentrating on pushing the skis along and her mind happily listing the insults she 'd love to heap on his golden head , Shannon failed to notice that he 'd come to a halt just a couple of feet in front of her , till she cannoned straight into his solid bulk , her skis sliding neatly between his . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One quarter — 25% — said they 'd listen to a Radio News Network . |
| 7 | One quarter — 25% — said they 'd listen to a Radio News Network . |
| 8 | I would prefer to a committee of people who have experience |
| 9 | Again , the tendency towards progressive improvement in gazelles would slow to a halt , were it not for the parallel tendency to improvement shown by their predators . |
| 10 | I would like to think that my ministry would appeal to a cross section of the population , that Official Unionists could come to my services and not be insulted by anything I might say . |
| 11 | The selectors did know the gender of the artists but they stressed their aim to choose a show that would appeal to a cross section of visitors . |
| 12 | Well this to , to photograph anything , this just happens to be a camera and I suppose that would appeal to a lot of camera collectors to people that I er er who I work with , people I know , friends and that , they know I 'm interested in photography and they always ask me about cameras |
| 13 | So so , what , no , if it appeals , what I 'm saying is , if it appeals to me , I could imagine it would appeal to a lot of people out there . |
| 14 | Were an heir under 18 years of age to accede , or the monarch to become mentally or physically incapacitated from acting , or were otherwise not available ‘ for some definite cause ’ , it would fall to a panel of high officers of state to declare a regency , in which event the person next in line would assume power until a further declaration signified the end of the regency . |
| 15 | You actually do exactly the same thing as you would do to a joiner in a , in , in , in , in a fitting shop , to say , This task c c c can take this length of erm time . |
| 16 | Whereas no one knew what humans would do to a nome if they caught one … |
| 17 | ( I wish she would , but fat lot of good it would do to a gilgul . ) |
| 18 | Members of the public , on the other hand , would speak to a judge as they would to any other knight or peer — Sir John , or Lord Smith . |
| 19 | ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement . |
| 20 | Similar difficulties can occur if the former matrimonial home was in the names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , for on the death of either it would appear to a purchaser that the survivor had the right to sell ( Law of Property ( Joint Tenants ) Act 1964 , s1(1) ) . |
| 21 | In addition , the economies of the most advanced capitalist nations would advance to a point where any further development of production would be held back by the crises of capitalism and by the desire to produce for profit rather than the general good . |
| 22 | A good service may cost more in terms of staffing , but would contribute to a reduction in medical-bed occupancy by providing early assessment . |
| 23 | Mr de Klerk , who said Mr Mandela 's release was ‘ not on the agenda now ’ , expressed the hope that the release of the prisoners would contribute to a spirit of reconciliation . |
| 24 | In my judgment the basic answer which any real property lawyer would give to a question about an assignee 's power to deal with a tenancy interest is that each assignee is the owner of the whole estate and can deal with it so as to alter it or its terms . |
| 25 | They seem unskilled in the simple acts that console women when they are distressed — like being held gently for as long as they need to be held , making murmuring noises rather than using words ( or even worse , forming sentences ) , wiping tears away and blowing noses … in other words giving the same comfort which you would give to a child . |
| 26 | Yesterday , the Latvian parliament confirmed it would stick to a plan to introduce minimum five and 10-year residence requirements for candidates wishing to stand in local and republican elections . |
| 27 | Yesterday , the Latvian parliament confirmed it would stick to a plan to introduce minimum five and 10-year residence requirements for candidates wishing to stand in local and republican elections . |
| 28 | There were three brothers , Jacob , Phillip and John , who were very much their own men and who would stick to a viewpoint through thick and thin . |
| 29 | industrial machinery — indeed anything that includes hardened steel — would grind to a halt if trade in chromium stopped . |
| 30 | All other production would grind to a halt tomorrow if women were n't producing these workers . |