Example sentences of "would [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd knock on the door and a little slit would open . |
| 2 | I 'd stay on the sip , whatever Frejji said , and wait for her to finish . |
| 3 | In fact , they were so well drilled that when I went to C Division — Essex Street — you 'd wait on the corner of a back street and there 'd be a crowd of fellers there and within no time , before you could get near them , they 'd all have disappeared . |
| 4 | The facilities on the A4 are the kind you 'd expect on a unit costing rather more . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 7 | As she were in a hurry an' it were ready I said you 'd send on t' bill . ’ |
| 8 | He was , he was more like a pantomime character , how , character you 'd see on the stage |
| 9 | And I 'd look on the field and it was his brother who 'd been tackled . ’ |
| 10 | There 's Tony never out of the bath and Nutty never in it , one stinks like a knocking shop the other like a nest of polecats ; I 'm beginning to wonder how they 'd look on the mantelpiece but do n't let on I said so ! |
| 11 | They You used to go and walk on the face in a morning an and you 'd rap on the face with your pick and buggers are green , ther they 're not ripe yet . |
| 12 | Did n't Cloughie get done for doing something similar a few years ago when he chinned the Forest fan who 'd run on the pitch ( later kissed him but brought out one of the all-time commentators classics from Greavesie when he said ‘ It was the first time the shit really had hit the fan ’ ) . |
| 13 | " I 'd work on the assumption that he was n't put in before high water , " Sergeant Burgess said . |
| 14 | From there we 'd work on the sound to develop it , maybe even including different amplifiers . |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't want payment , and I 'd sleep on the floor — anywhere ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 've grown up hating and loving country music , too ; sometimes you just did n't want it to be there 'cos it was the only thing you 'd hear on the radio in Texas , before rock'n'roll . |
| 18 | I 'd read on the back of a record about open tunings , so the first thing I did was follow Elmore James and tune to D. |
| 19 | ‘ I knew she 'd have on an apron , ’ Carlie said to the social worker . |
| 20 | so therefore then your doors were connected by hinges to the keel and from the keel to the cones , that 's where your door was , so that 'd swing on the keel and then your chains were fixed to the other end of the door and you hauled that up on your cones . |
| 21 | Then we 'd go on a ten- to twenty-mile march and when we came back it would all be weighed again . |
| 22 | Yes you do and , and also , another thing , and it 's , in a way it was a bit annoying because we 'd go on these like crash diets , you know , we 'd get really nasty and s well not nasty and skinny we 'd just get really skinny before we went cos you know we would n't eat anything except like fruit for a we , we 'd eat , we 'd go on a diet and then we would n't eat fruit for , would n't eat anything but fruit for the week before and so we 'd , you know we 'd like have flat stomachs and you feel , if you have n't eaten you feel thinner even if you 're not , it 's all , it 's a bit , it 's psychological is n't it ? |
| 23 | He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota . |
| 24 | I 'd piss on an ancestor as soon as trace one . |
| 25 | I think the problem is that if you 're not careful this will leave the counterproductive erm , somebody said well I do n't mind paying two fifty or three quid so what you 'd gain on the seats you 'd lose on the side . |
| 26 | ‘ Who 'd live on a street called Failure ? ’ |
| 27 | It was a bit of a squash but he did n't seem to mind and I 'd put on a tape of golden oldies ( stuff from around 1985 ) for them to sing along to . |
| 28 | I 'd put on the pressure , really hard . |
| 29 | I think he and Dolly 'd get on a treat . ’ |
| 30 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |