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 ? ’ |