Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] would [vb infin] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities would think you 'd finally cracked under the pressure of what had happened to your family . |
| 2 | If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants . |
| 3 | One of the ways she visualized life was as a swirling , unpredictable tide of confusion which swept you along helpless , bumping against rocks , trying to snatch at branches , bits of wreckage , anything that might help to keep you afloat for , if you did n't watch out , the waters would suck you down and close over your head . |
| 4 | Or so the organisers would have you think . |
| 5 | The photographs and the negatives would cost you five thousand pounds . ’ |
| 6 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 7 | The magistrates would tell you that they were du they were going to do their utmost to pr to support the police at all times . |
| 8 | They may not be as healthy as the makers would like you to think . |
| 9 | And also the boss or the supervisors would treat you badly if you were active in our union . |
| 10 | Now , what layout of the cards would allow you to score five diamond tricks without loss ? |