Example sentences of "you would [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you would feel complimented by receiving my confidences . |
| 2 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 3 | Now that would not be what one would expect er two months ago if I 'd said well look you know that 's that 's what the revolution 's gon na bring about you would 've said I do n't believe you . |
| 4 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 5 | But again , see again cos we 're not following the actual script , the picking up and pinpointing people mentioned in earlier conversations , which you would 've done if you 'd 've gone back to the planning the future . |
| 6 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 7 | You would 've got away with that one . |
| 8 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 9 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 10 | You would 've thought would n't you that Cecil Parkinson 's memoirs would 've sold very well , in fact they were a complete flop . |
| 11 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 12 | used to publish what areas were going to have power cuts , d' ya remember ? , you were in Bristol at the time , er Stuart was the same , they used to publish what area would be cut off and for what time and for how long and you knew you would get cut off , sort of ten o'clock in the morning till three in the afternoon , usu , four or five hours at a time was n't it ? |
| 13 | But it 's like wherever I , you know , if you get a halls of residence on campus you would get put in Handsworth , like if you chuck a telly out of the , like one |
| 14 | And er oh his mother had been every so nasty she said , Before you would get married she 'd gas him . |
| 15 | If you did that in the Boat Race you would get left behind . |
| 16 | I mean I was the on I was the only black guy in the regiment erm for a very long time and erm you know it did n't it does n't matter what colour you are erm apart from my case , there was if you was erm if you were slow on your runs or you was n't good at at cleaning your kit you would get bullied . |
| 17 | Whatever local radio you were listening to during the 3rd week of June , it is likely that you would have heard Delahunty 's editorial director , Paul Mace , on the hour , every hour , bringing you those live reports from the Pilkington Glass Ladies ' Championships at Eastbourne . |
| 18 | ‘ You would have heard officially on Monday but I thought why not tell you now and save you a week-end 's worry . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I do n't suppose you would have heard , Doctor , ’ Edna went on . |
| 20 | This is a compilation of mbaqanga music , very typical of the township jive you would have heard in any shebeen since the 1960s : lively , rollicking music with fluid , chattering guitars . |
| 21 | You would have heard . ’ |
| 22 | And then you would have met Leila . |
| 23 | Because you would have received your pay and benefits net of tax if you had worked , your damages must take tax into account . |
| 24 | If you wait the full five years , the pension will be one-third higher than what you would have received at age 60 . |
| 25 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 26 | ‘ You would have exchanged this place for a cousin ? ’ he said in frank disbelief . |
| 27 | How you would have hated this , Gabriel , how you would have hungered for the sea and the sky , the hurly-burly and the heave-ho , the teamwork and the solitude , the unpredictability , the freedom , the danger of the waves . |
| 28 | What did we inherit , I say we inherited that , and also we have inherited er an S S A to us , that you would have inherited , the conservative , at some ten million short of what we needed . |
| 29 | ‘ This is a very sensible and quiet little girl , ’ you would have said to yourself . |
| 30 | if I 'd had said I wan na , I wan na claim this from client you would have said come on , that 's a bad marketing exercise . |