Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want people coming round , I 'd rather take it round to theirs , but you just could n't stop them , y'know what I mean . |
| 2 | I thought I 'd just take them down to the tip , but when we had half a bucket full I thought I 'd better phone the police |
| 3 | I 'd always put it down to the studio lights . |
| 4 | Well I think that 's quite I mean I 'd probably knock him down to a hundred anyway . |
| 5 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 6 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 7 | He told them that by turning off here , the company they were following would almost certainly be heading for upper Teviotdale , by Rankilburn , Buccleuch and Bellenden , since the Ettrick valley would merely bring them back to its junction with Yarrow again . |
| 8 | No , no it would just bring it up to date , the stuff we have n't accrued . |
| 9 | If he still opted to run the 400m , he would probably make it through to the semi-finals , but he certainly would not win . |
| 10 | I ca n't believe for one minute that Perry would really give it up to be a video director . |
| 11 | But at worst , and far more likely , they would simply hand her over to a magistrate as a thief . |
| 12 | They existed , too , somewhere , seeking him out in every corner , and if they ever found him they would surely drag him back to the terror from which he looked forward to escaping , finally and permanently , soon . |
| 13 | Because they told me that the assessment will be made by the Child Support Agency who would then pass it over to the Income Support Agency who would then take them off Income Support . |
| 14 | They paddled out carrying some kedges for craft that would then tow themselves off to these anchors , and with nothing more to be done on Z Red beach they paddled round to Z Green . |
| 15 | And er the sparrow thought he would maybe make it back to the mainland now so the peedie fairy climbed on his back and the sparrow flew it back to the mainland . |
| 16 | Asked to stand guard over good or treasure , they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger . |
| 17 | I mean let's be honest if we all turned out that 's five and if the rest of the Executive Committee turned out that would virtually take it up to ten we would n't be looking for many more after that |
| 18 | The potential deficit on the poll tax collection fund er because of these people not registering is well over million pounds and that by spending the hundred thousand proposed here , would actually bring it down to seven hundred and thirty five thousand pounds and that 's where the conjuring trick is er this er amendment because of course , if you work out the increase in the balances that you are proposing to take in this amendment , it works out exactly to seven hundred and thirty five thousand pounds , well it does on my calculations Mr Mayor . |
| 19 | Rain feared they had drifted so-far into the events of the day of the murder that she would never draw him back to other matters . |