Example sentences of "would [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course he 'd jump at the chance of wearing the most famous shirt in the Premier Division . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd jump at the chance , you know that . ’ |
| 3 | I should think they 'd jump at the chance of some pocket money . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That I 'd jump at the chance of marrying you . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have thought you 'd jump at the chance to have a second shot at the man . ’ |
| 6 | Up and down and over and over , again and again and I 'd marvel at the bulk of prayer they made in any one day . |
| 7 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 8 | He 'd look at a problem and come up with a totally different answer to the one you 'd expect … |
| 9 | Often , I would n't bother to try things on — I 'd look at the price tag and think ‘ I 've got to have this , ’ especially if I thought it was a ‘ bargain ’ I might not see again . |
| 10 | Right you 'd look at the bottom of the fraction , |
| 11 | I 'd go off to work , and she 'd look at the script and say : ‘ Who are you working with today , what are you doing ? ’ |
| 12 | You 'd look at the sergeant and if he O. K. d it , you 'd have one but if he did n't , you bloody would n't . ’ |
| 13 | You 'd weep at the destruction of such sheer glory . |
| 14 | He 'd bark at a bird wo n't it ? |
| 15 | ‘ When I saw him , but he must 've come on the bus it 'd stop at the turn an' 't was about the time . |
| 16 | Erm so erm that 's the one I 'd recommend at the moment . |
| 17 | Of course , she 'd get at the boy if she could . |
| 18 | Rella would point to the sixth dot and say solemnly : ‘ This is here , ’ and she 'd point at the floor , to make sure I understood . |
| 19 | You 'd sit at the gate for ages in , in the hope that the road would be clear as well . |
| 20 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 21 | Pop and plainchant , Otis Redding and O'Riada , ‘ Walk On The Wild Side ’ and ‘ Faith Of Our Fathers ’ — an average Pierce Turner album features more couplings than you 'd find at a business executive conference in Bangkok . |
| 22 | Until it was developed , prawn hatcheries would remain at the mercy of factors beyond their control . |
| 23 | The application of community sanctions would remain at the discretion of sentencers , though there would then be a price to be paid in terms of consistency of application . |
| 24 | Greenpeace workers had begun packaging the 425 tonnes of waste , dumped in the Sibiu area of central Romania , for safe transport back to Germany and said they would remain at the site until the transport promised by German Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer arrived . |
| 25 | Probably , in his youth , some tone deaf colleague had told him that he possessed a good voice , ever since when , he would arise at every opportunity , usually by reluctant request , and then po-faced with hand on heart , would bellow ‘ Come into the garden Maude ’ , watched by a captive audience and a proud , watery-eyed wife . |
| 26 | Provided that the Pitot tube is small compared with the length scale of variations of the flow , u and p can be interpreted as the speed and pressure that would exist at the position of the Pitot tube in its absence . |
| 27 | You 're too big now , more 's the pity — and , in any case , I do n't think it would answer at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | At Tangier , he would stay at an hotel nearby . ’ |
| 29 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |
| 30 | Suppose that the increase in the money supply is announced in time to be included in that agents fully believe the central bank , and that the central bank behaves in period t in the way that it announced it would behave at the end of t - 1 . |