Example sentences of "would [verb] them at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 2 | She 'd phone them at the very first opportunity , knowing how they would have worried . |
| 3 | Or I mean I think he 's , she 's bitten him before , if he had any sense he 'd leave them at the gate or something , I mean somebody would go for them . |
| 4 | He said he 'd put them at a friend 's house for safe keeping , and the friend just happened to have gone away on holiday . |
| 5 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 6 | He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly . |
| 7 | Sergeant Potter would meet them at Swallow Hall with the pistols , Uncle Bean and Biddy would arrive at lunchtime with the horses . |
| 8 | Cec told ‘ Gilly ’ that if he ( Gilly ) bowled any beamers at Cec 's team he ( Cec ) would bowl them at Gilly 's team . |
| 9 | As despair grew and self respect diminished we would take them at their unspoken word and go and buy a bottle of anaesthetic and uncork the genie who would play merry hell with the last vestige of hope of recovery . |
| 10 | A month ago , when Jim Bob and Fruitbat jokingly suggested that it might be vaguely amusing to tie in the , if you will , ‘ concept ’ of the album with a foreign press conference to promote it , they did n't think that the marketing johnnies at Chrysalis and EMI would take them at their word . |
| 11 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |
| 12 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |
| 13 | And secondly , would it not be wiser in terms of employment to steer ‘ low-quality ’ graduates towards ‘ high relevance ’ courses which would allow them at least to offer some expertise to prospective employers ? |
| 14 | To pick and choose which plants they were going to eat would put them at a disadvantage since they would waste so much time looking for food , rather than eating it . |
| 15 | So I would suggest that regional and sub- regional policies need to occur much higher up the list and er perhaps I would put them at number one if not number two . |
| 16 | Efforts by the EC to introduce a tax last year were frustrated by the Bush administration 's opposition to the concept which European industrialists claimed would put them at an unfair disadvantage in world markets . |
| 17 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |
| 18 | She would visit them at home at times , and have them spend an evening with her , with or without boy-friends . |
| 19 | Televisa 's Mr Diez Barroso says rates are cheap — around a fifth of those in America — and that the market would accept them at twice the price . |
| 20 | They were , in their way , an incentive to early departure for if we passed a little later than usual we would find them at their morning defecation , squatting in a row along a low wall . |