Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [pron] 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 2 | Now if you want to know what I 'd like , which holiday I 'd like and I probably will never do it , mind you I ne I need the person to go with because definitely you need a person to go with , I 'd love to go on the Orient Express . |
| 3 | It 's tempting to wonder what he 'd make of wordsmiths all around re-writing his work ; mellowed out or gobsmacked ? |
| 4 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 5 | Even though you quite like their records they 're all dull old spuds and you just have to interpret what they 'd say if they were literate . |
| 6 | But surely you ca n't expect the government , now that the ambulance dispute in the public sector is in its sixth month to get what you 'd call a substantial , possibly double figured settlement ? |
| 7 | I hate to think what we 'd do if they had to be replaced . |
| 8 | ‘ If Russell looked at my life now , I dread to think what he 'd say … ’ |
| 9 | I was go , thinking about doing it the other way to see what you 'd say , but then I thought , no ! |
| 10 | We even sent an invitation to Michael Swinton as a joke just to see what he 'd do , but it was hopelessly disappointing , he simply pretended he had n't had it — ’ |
| 11 | hard luck , no I 'd like to see what he 'd do with his stuff if he had to pay with it , pay for it himself . |
| 12 | Anyway s to cut a long story short , I had a word with Stuart to see what it 'd cost . |
| 13 | I mean , my immediate management , , now in , in a crisis she 's brilliant , you see , I , I do n't know whether this with this the other day , whether she did n't go to see Paul to see what I 'd say |
| 14 | Sitting in front of a small baby-frilled dressing-table to put on her make-up — a fascinating procedure — she remembered again to ask what I 'd come for . |
| 15 | ‘ To get into the group at all , you have to say what you 'd do if you knew you were going to die tomorrow . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |