Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [verb] they [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | National Scenic Areas ( NSAs ) are designated in recognition of exceptional value to the country , and you might expect they would afford protection from damaging commercial developments . |
2 | Even if their trade were seasonal , in some way , you 'd think they would have horses and carts of their own . |
3 | You 'd think they would have would n't you ? |
4 | If they can build aqueducts you 'd think they could engineer a wallet to keep their money in . |
5 | you 'd think they could know appetite |
6 | Somebody , if they were wrong you 'd think they 'd tell you would n't you ? |
7 | You 'd think they 'd bottle it , make it last over the weeks or months , but they 're simple people , and there 's no holding them back . |
8 | You 'd think they 'd notice at work would n't you ? |
9 | Jonathan , Jonathan , dad wants to watch the news in a minute please , so hurry up and change it over You 'd think they 'd save that You do n't know , I would n't be surprised you will well that 's marvellous is n't it ? |
10 | You 'd think they 'd like that . |
11 | But you 'd think they 'd get the Les Paul pickups right , would n't you ? |
12 | even if the church was And they 've cut all the side , the other side , Church Street they 've cut all the hedge of the church down there and dumped all the grass inside , no not the grass , the branches , inside well you 'd think they 'd get a blooming lorry or a van to take it all down the blooming tip would n't you ? |
13 | But er you 'd think they 'd get a lorry or something to shift it from there . |
14 | he use to have his own house , last year he went into it you 'd think they 'd get some of it and to weed the gardens |
15 | Well you 'd think they 'd let her , you know have some old paper |
16 | If you look at the players they 've got you 'd think they 'd destroy just about anyone ( Giggs/Rush/Saunders/Hughes/Speed/ Southall/Hazelwood ( sp ? ) ) . |
17 | " Aye , you 'd think they 'd have moved on , would n't you ? |
18 | You 'd think they 'd have the wit to send someone who could speak English . |
19 | ‘ You 'd think they 'd keep it open so they could go on bugging me , ’ he said . |
20 | ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household . |
21 | And they 'd be talking , now you could bet they could get somebody interested in that shop on , on politics or trade unionism , they 'd get one in that shop . |
22 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
23 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
24 | The last straw for the soldiers was not so much their own suffering as the perception that the home and hearth which , ostensibly , they were fighting to defend , was itself under threat : ‘ You would think they would come to some terms when they see the country in that state . ’ |
25 | ‘ He would slag off someone terribly and you would think they must have had a terrible row . |