Example sentences of "would [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire .
2 you 'd eat them before what tea break ?
3 ‘ Jeff told me you promised your parents that you 'd treat them to a holiday this autumn in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary — but that now you 're starting to worry about how you 're going to pay for it .
4 If you 've been to any of the major house parties , you 'd know them by sight , if not by name .
5 You said you 'd buy them off me straight away , you already owe me thirty quid , that 's fifty five
6 And he 'd clip them on the clip them on the rope and take 'em to the pit bottom .
7 ‘ I 'd trust them with my life . ’
8 And then she 'd type them on this special machine that had indelible ink in it .
9 Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly .
10 The eventual winners were the ever-so knowledgeable team from R & D ( well , you 'd expect them to be bright would n't you ? )
11 those words were carefully chosen as as I 'm sure sure you 'd expect them to be .
12 And I 'd expect them to be here .
13 I 'd expect them to be wasting their time on this foolish nonsense and not me .
14 If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores .
15 Well the motives are to offer more choice , to provide more competition in the credit card market and a better deal for customers and , to the extent that there are prices changes , we 'd expect them to be beneficial , particularly to those who are buying with cash or debit cards rather than credit cards .
16 Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ?
17 Well they 'd give them to her too .
18 That 'd bring them from their beds . ’
19 If the buses ran from Bramford Road to Lattice Barn one year , they 'd decide they 'd send them from Bramford Road to Bourne Bridge the next .
20 You sold er they , they 'd got these sort of erm the old- fashioned , you 'd see them in the corn merchants where there would be fowl er feed .
21 ‘ So I said I 'd see them in a few days .
22 We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything .
23 They 'd keep them for themselves .
24 I asked him where he was goin' to get the pennies from , and he said he 'd nick them from the superintendent 's gas money .
25 They had er , perhaps two men 'd on the , the trams and sons 'd follow them like you know .
26 He 'd sod them by the hide and arrange them into lengths .
27 People are very seldom exactly what you 'd like them to be
28 I 'd like them to be able to walk to school , and that 's what they could do if this school was open .
29 ‘ I 'd toss them in the river in sacks , ’ he says , and I pretend to believe him .
30 ‘ You thought that if you turned up in the smart suit and with the laser-beam smile you 'd wow them into panting agreement ? ’
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