Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the time , he 'd stay with one of his friends when they were out campaigning for the animals . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd feel about one hundred per cent less claustrophobic without these safety straps , she thought . |
| 3 | So this one you 'd mark off one two three and this they would actually use this erm if they were loading lorries they could use this sort of thing . |
| 4 | I mean , people like me are the sort he expects to end up in the nick , not blokes he 'd invite to one of his do 's . |
| 5 | When you 'd done with that , went across to another chappie that came at nine o'clock , selling clothes , used to put his lines up on his stall , he had lines across his stall and for that you got tuppence or threepence , depending on his mood and by then it would be ten o'clock so you 'd go to one or two more and collect them jugs up and fetch them tea . |
| 6 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 7 | And you 'd get about one day 's pay of groceries and meat and stuff . |
| 8 | " The Ryder Cup means so much that I 'd play on one leg if I had to . " |
| 9 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |
| 10 | And then she would listen to them read , well this is what they finished with they 'd have a book and they 'd take it up and she 'd listen to one line ! |
| 11 | If we all realised just how intimately lonely we all are , the word and feeling ‘ lonely ’ could be cancelled from life 's experience and we would relate to one another in a more true fashion since we would be aware of the limitations of relationships . |
| 12 | Can you find out how many flies , one swallow would eat in one hour ? |
| 13 | Anyway , I kept them in the aviary for about four weeks just to make sure they would adapt to one another . |
| 14 | Only one person remarkably said that Oxford United would win by one goal to nil , I think loads of people go for the three ones or the four ones or things like that . |
| 15 | Thus , the algorithm would backtrack to one of the apparently cheaper paths and extend that one . |
| 16 | The cost of the path would increase to as a word from this region was incorporated , and the algorithm would backtrack to one of the apparently better extensions where the cost was . |
| 17 | Any employee at Coniston Mines during the 19th Century would fall into one of two distinct categories : ( 1 ) a dayworker , whose wages were generally based upon a rate of so much per day but which was variable depending upon the degree of skill required , yet at times might be calculated on a piece rate , or , ( 2 ) a miner engaged in winning ore from the stopes , tunnelling , raising , or shaft sinking through rock . |
| 18 | Up to 50,000 heads of households and their families would fall into one of four categories of eligibility for full British citizenship : there would be a general allocation for 36,200 people and additional allocations for key entrepreneurs ( 500 ) ; disciplined services ( 7,000 ) ; and sensitive services ( 6,300 ) . |
| 19 | The definition of Unemployment can , and does , vary from scheme to scheme though generally would fall within one of the following wordings : — |
| 20 | She wished she had brought a bottle of gin with her , even a bottle of wine , but now the only place she could find one was a state liquor store , and while the clerk would know of one , sitting with a bottle waiting for the phone to ring was n't her own image of herself . |
| 21 | Since there was no meat left now , the ration from now on until the supplies were exhausted would consist of one handful of either rice or dal and one of flour per person , the men being given a more generous helping than the women and children . |
| 22 | The thief , having got past ninety per cent of the gates and gadgets blocking his way , would break into one of the flats in the building . |
| 23 | World Conference on Transport Research last week in Hamburg that a ‘ maglev ’ train on the 500 km route would carry about one tenth the total number of travellers between the two cities . |
| 24 | The idea was to leave FRCN with the responsibility for national and international broadcasting : the Nigerian government would speak with one voice to its people and to the outside world . |
| 25 | The section gives no indication that the interests of employees and shareholders are to be given a different weighting , and hence the duty of the directors in running the company would appear to one of balancing the respective interests . |
| 26 | The RAC MasterCard offer everything you would expect from one of the world 's major credit card organisations . |
| 27 | But whatever favour you choose the rusks will still have all the qualities you would expect from one of the country 's most trusted and established baby food manufacturers . |
| 28 | Little did we know that it would result in one of the most amazing periods of any of our lives — including David 's I 'm sure . |
| 29 | You would look at one A and one B |
| 30 | In that case The Lord of the Rings would look like one of Bilbo 's poems removed from context and put without explanation in The Oxford Book of English Verse — fictionless and unhappy . |