Example sentences of "they would [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostly they 'd make for the West End and meet others like themselves ; they 'd pick up survival information , get oriented within the subculture that they 'd entered , and learn where the free food could be picked up . |
| 2 | They 'd sit in the kitchen with a pot of tea just after dawn , their very different labours finishing just as the rest of the city was going to work . |
| 3 | He was going to walk her to her other job in the bar , across the Jardin du Luxembourg ; perhaps they 'd sit in the late sunshine , near the thin young naked girl who looked exposed and hence signified Truth , the inscription said . |
| 4 | In their plight at present , they 'd settle for the same status as Hartlepool next season in the Second Division . |
| 5 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 6 | They 'd walk round the block and along the side of the railway embankment as far as the viaduct where the line crossed the road , and then they 'd turn and walk back . |
| 7 | whether they 'd stay in the right shape or not . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't imagine how they 'd manage with the zimmer , although there 's probably a whole magazine in the library devoted to obscene things you can do with disability aids . ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes they 'd wake in the night , alerted by the jackals howling on the outskirts of the village , and they 'd nose open the heavy doors and go outside on to the roof , joining the other dogs in their chorus of barking . |
| 10 | They 'd meet at The Roebuck , the same pub that everyone from the shop used , on Saturday lunchtime , then go down the Kings Road spending their money . |
| 11 | If I got a new beat , I 'd go round the beat and say , ‘ Get to the kerb ! ’ and they 'd move to the kerb reluctantly . |
| 12 | Because the service was so good they 'd all , you know , they 'd forget about the delivery that would be there . |
| 13 | When the ship was swinging round , they 'd go down the river , th that here rope was still on the bollard so to throw it off |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was very little social life on board , but when you come home to Lowestoft , they 'd go to the Suffolk , and treat one another , or to the Stone jug , a little farther up the road . |
| 16 | No they 'd go to the Pool Manager . |
| 17 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 18 | No , they 'd go into the mid one would n't they ? |
| 19 | Or , they 'd talk about the party and say , hey what about Neil 's girlfriend ! |
| 20 | Cos they used t what they used to do in the small boat , they used to coil so much in the then they 'd row to the quay and then the they 'd run ashore hid past the line and pull a river and put the bollard for 'em and then cos they 'd turn round they might give us a quid for a drink you see |
| 21 | And as for Derby … if they fell any lower they 'd drop off the pools coupon ! |
| 22 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 23 | ‘ Right , Jimmy , ’ she said , her eyes on the papers in her hand , and was about to add that they 'd start with the paperwork he 'd collected , when a voice that definitely was n't Jimmy 's cut in . |
| 24 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 25 | Well , it was all to the good ; after he 'd finished skiing for the day they 'd return to the cottage , and she 'd set out for home . |
| 26 | They 'd come into the shops covered in Christmas decorations . |
| 27 | For the first time since they 'd come into the house , Roman turned his dark gaze directly on to her . |
| 28 | They 'd come to the feeding-place and there 'd be nothing there . |
| 29 | They 'd come to the Chiltern Show at Stoke Mandeville on the understanding that more than 90-thousand people were expected to turn up . |
| 30 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |