Example sentences of "you would [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is so fiery that you would shrivel instantly . |
| 2 | A sensible policy on exemptions and rebates would reduce the possible savings and my guess was that in the end you would achieve surprisingly little in public savings . |
| 3 | In a case that you have settled without litigation within nine months for a relatively modest amount it is unlikely that you would achieve more than four or five chargeable hours in a case where liability was never really disputed . |
| 4 | I hoped you would stay away from racing but it was in your blood . |
| 5 | If you had £50 , perhaps you would stay away for three months . |
| 6 | Assuming that your machine has a standard sized case and existing motherboard the important calculation to do is the value of what you would keep and what you would throw away . |
| 7 | Hence a lower price than you would pay elsewhere in this part of town ( £25–£30ph pn ) . |
| 8 | You have refused to pay what has been asked for my return , but if you knew what I have become , a fearless old man with nothing left to lose , you would pay twice as much to have me kept away ! |
| 9 | If television is going to be with you , you will need to arrange stronger lights on the key focal points — you would do well to get a set of four ‘ redheads ’ ( 800 watt TV lights ) . |
| 10 | One word of warning though : if you are someone whose daily life involves a strong competitive element , you would do well to avoid too much in the way of competitive sport ( squash , tennis and so on ) as your form of exercise as these will only tend to maintain an already high level of stress . |
| 11 | In any event , you would do well to strive to avoid the uncertainty of a dispute about the legal effect of words said at a time when tempers flare . |
| 12 | You are by nature a fluid and adventurous sign , and you would do well to keep more than one iron in the fire in 1993 . |
| 13 | Otherwise you would do well to keep your eyes fixed on the grilled fish and chicken , boring as they may seem in comparison . |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't know how we people of World 's End live , ’ she said quietly , ‘ so perhaps you would do well to stay indoors out of the way of any trouble . ’ |
| 15 | And , unless you are that raving genius we have met before , you would do well to analyse exactly what it is your detective novel is about before you embark on detailed plotting , let alone the actual writing . |
| 16 | " Policemen , " once wrote the author Michael Gilbert , whose police procedurals you would do well to read as well as his other crime stories , " did not catch murderers by taking thought . |
| 17 | An example you would do well to learn from , if this sort of book appeals to you as a potential writer , is the Inspector Dover novels of Joyce Porter . |
| 18 | So , if this way of looking at the world is what starts up that vital fire in your imagination , then you would do well to take Watson 's top and have as your hero someone imbued with plenty of ordinary commonsense . |
| 19 | And that end you would do well to have had in mind from the very beginning . |
| 20 | So if you are producing a Victorian mystery , for instance , you would do well to think of a plot in terms more of melodrama than if you were writing a book set today . |
| 21 | You would do well to remember your place . |
| 22 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 23 | You would do well to beware them . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps you would do well to rest for the night and journey on by daybreak , ’ said the Oak . |
| 25 | There is a supplementary book included in the package , however , and you would do well to read this first if you want to get maximum benefit from the program . |
| 26 | There is a supplementary book included in the package , however , and you would do well to read this first if you want to get maximum benefit from the program . |
| 27 | And you would do well to follow his example , her eyes added , because while I 'm not very good at business there are other things that I am good at , very good indeed . |
| 28 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 29 | Possibly you regard car maintenance as a hobby , something you would do anyway as a pleasure . |
| 30 | Either way , you will probably want to put more emphasis on decoration than you would do normally . |