Example sentences of "would tell you " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are those who would tell you that BMW 's reputation for first-class finish has been on thin ice for some time but , until now , we 've seen little evidence to substantiate the claim . |
| 2 | ( Later , Karajan was to lay claim to Holst 's The Planets , first with his Vienna Philharmonic Decca recording , a favourite of the composer 's daughter , Imogen , and subsequently with his Berlin recording which , with a mixture of bemusement and pride , Karajan would tell you is one of his all-time best-selling records . ) |
| 3 | Slim in her dungarees , with her long , curly , chestnut hair and wide-eyed enthusiasm , some would tell you Marcia was ‘ a little cookie ’ , but I saw someone who had the wisdom to recognise where she was happy and the courage to act on it . |
| 4 | For many older people this brings back memories of the means test in the thirties , when the visiting officer would tell you to sell the piano before you could receive any payments . |
| 5 | ‘ Ed would tell you the implications of playing a football stadium in Poland , for instance . |
| 6 | ‘ Joan , time is fleeting and I would tell you what is in my mind , ’ he said gravely . |
| 7 | ‘ Bill Curtin , as he would tell you within minutes of making your acquaintance , was founder and head of the largest British firm of consulting engineers outside London . |
| 8 | ‘ If I knew what had to arrive I would tell you . ’ |
| 9 | Whether it 's a knitted or fabric item , suitable fillings will be required so we thought we would tell you about a couple of products from Abbey Quilting Ltd , a company which specialises in wadding and filling products for craftwork . |
| 10 | As any Tory would tell you until Black Wednesday , his personality and his popularity won the election . |
| 11 | If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants . |
| 12 | I should n't criticise it as everyone else does , because without the M25 , it would be impossible to get to all of the six clubs that we have built , strung out like pearls , ( or glass beads , my critics would tell you ) around its perimeter . |
| 13 | What you should do — if you were sophisticated — was just give the glass a swirl and sniff , which would tell you whether or not the wine was off . |
| 14 | The physics department would tell you that chemistry 's only a bit of physics anyway . |
| 15 | He said he would tell you . |
| 16 | and then the law would tell you where you 're going wrong . |
| 17 | I mean people were dying , men were dying , my brother died , he got killed in the War , pe every day you went to work and somebody would tell you , So and so 's died , you remember so and so , he 's died . |
| 18 | It would n't tell you how many swallows , it would tell you how many lots of six swallows would east that . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh yes , it did , ’ said Lili , ‘ though , mind you , I think it highly unlikely that anyone would tell you on your wedding day that you looked the most frightful frump — not , ’ she added hastily , ‘ that you did . |
| 20 | That the They would tell you what dividend they were paying out |
| 21 | I had to be sure she would tell you only about things that happened long ago . |
| 22 | Any sailor would tell you a swift inrush of water to the mouth and nose makes you speedily lose consciousness . |
| 23 | I I 'd er you know the older men would tell you . |
| 24 | ‘ Nobody would tell you . ’ |
| 25 | I would tell you if I could , I promise you , but my story involves others and — and I simply can not in honour divulge it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He is a good man , mademoiselle — all the world would tell you so — but he has had to be strong — to bear everything on his shoulders . |
| 27 | Even if you did n't know anything about baby-feeding times , a quick look at the TV schedules would tell you that . |
| 28 | However , I think what most analysts would tell you was , er but then again it might not . |
| 29 | Such a comparison would tell you about changes in language and in aesthetics , about the demands of performance in the eighteenth century , and about changes in social values . |
| 30 | We 'll come onto this later , later on , but er , it can be shown quite easily , why farm , how farm , why farmers er , behave what you may , from what economic theory would tell you is , is an irrational manner , alright , and it 's simply because they 're trying to minimize their , their risks . |