Example sentences of "they would [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ They 'd love to . |
| 2 | But if you did something underhand , they 'd shout about it . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'd pay for most of it . ’ |
| 4 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 5 | I wish they 'd pay for me . |
| 6 | I would n't have thought they 'd bother with a |
| 7 | It meant that after Allison 's six successive miscarriages , this was a baby they 'd stop at nothing to save . |
| 8 | ‘ They realized what complete idiots they 'd make of themselves , ’ said Nigel complacently . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know what they 'd make of ours , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 10 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 11 | Mostly they 'd make for the West End and meet others like themselves ; they 'd pick up survival information , get oriented within the subculture that they 'd entered , and learn where the free food could be picked up . |
| 12 | They 'd sit in the kitchen with a pot of tea just after dawn , their very different labours finishing just as the rest of the city was going to work . |
| 13 | He was going to walk her to her other job in the bar , across the Jardin du Luxembourg ; perhaps they 'd sit in the late sunshine , near the thin young naked girl who looked exposed and hence signified Truth , the inscription said . |
| 14 | But because all the men were supporting Tom all the women was in a vast majority was opposed to him and they 'd vote for anybody , and it happened to be me you see . |
| 15 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |
| 16 | They 'd settle for at least a couple of days . |
| 17 | In their plight at present , they 'd settle for the same status as Hartlepool next season in the Second Division . |
| 18 | But they 'd care about us if they knew . |
| 19 | ‘ But they 'd care about Doyle , gunned down by an international terrorist . |
| 20 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 21 | They 'd walk round the block and along the side of the railway embankment as far as the viaduct where the line crossed the road , and then they 'd turn and walk back . |
| 22 | whether they 'd stay in the right shape or not . |
| 23 | It 's an exercise to test how they 'd cope with evacuating civilians from the scene of military action . |
| 24 | Hereford and Worcester ambulance and fire teams wanted to test how they 'd cope with an incident some 176 feet up . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't imagine how they 'd manage with the zimmer , although there 's probably a whole magazine in the library devoted to obscene things you can do with disability aids . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes they 'd wake in the night , alerted by the jackals howling on the outskirts of the village , and they 'd nose open the heavy doors and go outside on to the roof , joining the other dogs in their chorus of barking . |
| 27 | I do n't think anybody knows exactly how they 'd react to that you know sort of And I think the women 's support group has created the frame work that 's enabled us . |
| 28 | I do n't think they 'd stand for it anyway ! ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes they 'd stand with you while you were doing . |
| 30 | 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 . |