Example sentences of "we would [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But hang on , the fingerboard 's maple where we 'd expect African rosewood , and it looks wider . |
2 | Banks raised , we 'd loup clean owre |
3 | We 'd drop old ladies off at Victoria Station and the black cab drivers used to be very grumpy with us — in fact they used to punch you very hard in the mouth . |
4 | Well I I bet we 'd make front page would n't we ? |
5 | If you could buy those that sort of thing we 'd make good money with it er non-working . |
6 | In fact we used to send him up something rotten , Angela Scoular and I. We 'd make funny faces at him from behind the camera , trying to make him corpse . |
7 | We 'd make different judgments about this . |
8 | We all used to be at the desk — four of us , plus Roy Thomas-Baker and Mike Stone — all six of us with fingers on the faders and sometimes we 'd work thirty-hour mixes ! |
9 | They used to have exhibitions of their pupils ’ work ; and we went there to help Lottie and showed people in , and we 'd put little pinnies on to start with . |
10 | ‘ But you promised we 'd see red grouse , ’ wailed an insatiable lad . |
11 | Well I , I think they will give it to us , cos er , Martin what 's his name said that we 'd get complimentary copies , yeah you must n't touch those Tim cos those are matches and children never , never touch matches do they ? |
12 | ‘ Anyway , if you were on the railways we 'd get free tickets wherever we wanted to go . ’ |
13 | ‘ But normally we 'd use powerful diesel compressors . |
14 | Not as such so they 're pressing for an answer , the factory , but erm , he came back and said we 'd need firm prices , per kilo price , lump sum price not acceptable , customer offer of sixteen Deutschmark per kilo from , for twelve to fourteen with delivery , your request for those credit verified five months not acceptable , you offer to deliver in eight weeks in which case and we 'd get till twelve weeks , please confirm . |
15 | I did it partly for aesthetic reasons ; partly to economize on the number of genes necessary ( if genes did n't exert mirror-image effects on the two sides of the tree , we 'd need separate genes for the left and the right sides ) ; and partly because I was hoping to evolve animal-like shapes , and most animal bodies are pretty symmetrical . |
16 | We 'd come full circle round the Golf , our feet crunching bits of windscreen . |
17 | We 'd select other stand holders . |
18 | We 'd go in and maybe Elvis would have a couple of tunes he 'd want to try , or maybe Sam would have some ideas , so we 'd try different things and finally just lock into one of them . ’ |
19 | So if the panel were minded to recommend an exceptions policy then in the in the light of I eleven we we 'd have great difficulty in recommending other than B one and B two uses . |
20 | We 'd have other ones as well but just to show this particular example just to keep it small I 'll make it small . |
21 | Or Jagger would come over from the next hotel and we 'd have late night ‘ looning ’ sessions , and then Angie and I would go off again with Zowie . |
22 | If we could list those we 'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur . |
23 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
24 | Really , if we can make every single one your A levels follow that pattern , for you , we 'd have excellent results at the end of the day , okay . |
25 | We 'd have fresh vegetables about twice a week and fresh fruit not very often . |
26 | We 'd have white tie and tails to say Mass instead of vestments and you 'd all be answering ‘ OK ’ instead of ‘ Amen ’ ! |
27 | No , but if we star , if we did it seriously , we 'd have different boots would n't we ? |
28 | And we would organize collective work , so that , for example , if someone had a Plot which needed clearing , we would all go and lend a hand . |
29 | From London we would carry general merchandise back to Rotterdam — Every ship has a ledger to herself , and the manifest for every voyage has to be entered in it , so that you know precisely what the returns from each voyage are . |
30 | Often , we would disturb huge salmon , red-dressed for spawning , and I suspect that during the days of the POW camp , salmon were a frequent supplement to meagre wartime rations . |