Example sentences of "would probably [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment .
2 They also do n't like wind rock so in a , an exposed position young plants do really need more staking than you 'd probably give a bush because they tend to rot off at the roots if they grow around a lot .
3 He 'd probably eat the doughnut .
4 But like , I could say to you , you know ah , you know , how are yo , you know , and I 'd probably make a joke out of it !
5 ‘ Now , look here , Dotty , ’ said Ella , in a hectoring tone , do n't you realise you 'd probably break the chap 's leg in one of those ghastly contraptions ? ’
6 but then he 'd probably guess the rest of it where
7 That would be a catastrophe , a scandal would surely follow his knowing anything and he must n't be allowed to suspect any danger at all , not for the moment , otherwise they 'd probably murder the boy .
8 If we were doing it seven days a week , fair enough , you 'd probably need a chainsaw but anything , the loppers or the handsaw .
9 ‘ Well , I 'd still like to get married , but if someone actually proposed to me I 'd probably run a mile from that as well . ’
10 If we did n't play music we 'd probably get a baseball team together .
11 Since she hardly ever drank , she 'd probably have a hangover to contend with on top of everything else come morning , but frankly it would be a relief to have something else to think about other than Adam .
12 They 'd probably have a row about it .
13 It 's probably erm , yeah I think you 'd probably have a shot at your yellow .
14 It 's probably erm , yeah I think you 'd probably have a shot at your yellow .
15 If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’
16 I said he 'd probably have the curtains drawn and the place would smell of joss-sticks , but if she behaved as if nothing was out of the ordinary , all would be fine .
17 Yeah I 'd probably put the numbers
18 I 'd probably say The Byrds ' ‘ Younger Than Yesterday ’ ; Neil Young , ‘ Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere ’ ; the first Buzzcocks album ; the first Diodes album ; Throbbing Gristle , ‘ DOA : The Third & Final Report ’ ; My Bloody Valentine , ‘ Loveless ’ ; probably ‘ Doolittle ’ by the Pixies .
19 He 'd probably take a belt to the poor boy . ’
20 ‘ Well , she 'd probably take the prize , ’ conceded Ashenden with a weary grin .
21 If it were mine and I wanted to make serious use of the bass , I 'd probably take the E and A drones off , as one could argue that they do n't do enough on top of the heavier bass strings , which might be better used for playing ‘ proper ’ bass lines .
22 I looked at this detail with some interest , thinking it would probably tell a psychologist a great deal about Victor Frankenstein 's thought processes during this period of his engagement .
23 We would probably expect the dispersion in Β to be considerably larger than in N ; on the other hand , this may be offset by its lower degree of serial correlation .
24 Put another way , thoughtful Conservatives recognise that electoral reform would probably secure the right of middle ground in the face of socialist challenge but at the cost of blocking the returning prospect of the chance to implement the hard-right vision .
25 In the CEGB 's implicitly preferred high-nuclear case , nuclear power would account for 72 per cent of capacity in 2030 ; this would probably make the CEGB more dependent on nuclear power than it now is on coal .
26 My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success .
27 She would probably feel a lot better for having done so too .
28 Liza was aware that , on hearing she was pregnant , her mother-in-law as well as her own mother would probably guess the truth .
29 She would probably lick an intruder to death .
30 Spinning is impractical , and a fierce enough heater would probably ignite the fabric .
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