Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's tempting to wonder what he 'd make of wordsmiths all around re-writing his work ; mellowed out or gobsmacked ? |
| 2 | ‘ If you have money to spare , it makes sense to pay these off first because they cost much more than you 'd earn from savings . |
| 3 | She 'd laugh at things . |
| 4 | Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom . |
| 5 | ‘ And Den would be the man who 'd know about horses . ’ |
| 6 | But the curtains , it says please do n't touch , if you touch them they 'd fall to bits , they 're that old . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew you 'd jump to conclusions , ’ Kitty said . |
| 8 | They 'd delight in things like withholding the mail , or telling the cook off for making the food look too attractive or for giving people too much . |
| 9 | We 'd speak of ships and times at sea |
| 10 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 11 | I used to say , if he farted , it 'd smell like roses ! ’ |
| 12 | It was a downmarket job ; he 'd report on reactions to his attempts to change a $1000 bill , sit in a lion 's cage at the local zoo , or clean windows on the twenty-eighth floor of a skyscraper . |
| 13 | Well write , write down how much you 'd save and how much you 'd spend on sweets , how much you 'd spend on presents , how much on stationery . |
| 14 | Well write , write down how much you 'd save and how much you 'd spend on sweets , how much you 'd spend on presents , how much on stationery . |
| 15 | At first we 'd meet in hotels . |
| 16 | The sooner the business fair was over and she could fly back to London , the better she 'd sleep at nights … |
| 17 | At night we 'd sleep in caves , huddled up in blankets with nothing to burn for firewood , while outside an icy wind swirled clouds of snow-dust all around us . |
| 18 | This held true even in marriage ( a man who loved his wife too passionately was an adulterer , said St Jerome , who was not a man you 'd invite to parties ) ; and rampant millenarianism encouraged the tendency , since if you think that the end of the world , no , this world , is imminent , then procreation must seem something of a waste of time , and preparing your soul for Judgement Day will be pushed up your list of priorities . |
| 19 | Erm this shows the er affect of radiation against er dose er ten thousand units is , is er fairly le is , is lethal you 'd die within minutes if you got that sort of dose of radiation . |
| 20 | He 'd go for months and then have six in a row . |
| 21 | There was a time when I 'd go to clubs , feel nothing , get a headache , and have to leave . |
| 22 | He 'd go to clubs at one in the morning . |
| 23 | You see , Jim does n't like , I mean , we 'd go to Carriages probably cos it 's a a proper Italian |
| 24 | I 'd distinguish between cases which clearly involve relationships of authority , institutional relationships of authority , from those which involve people whose relationships are social or informal . |
| 25 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 26 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 27 | We 'd put on dresses and dance to Abba records and pretend to be Abba and we would prance about the bedroom or lounge singing into hairbrushes . |
| 28 | And they 'd come along cattle there just contented as could be and then they got their supper and we 'd give them a wee while of light still to eat their supper . |
| 29 | Since joining INCUBUS it was the first time he 'd come across men who carried guns — outside the States . |
| 30 | Marking the places from which they 'd come with scraps of paper , I decided to translate them first . |