Example sentences of "what you 'd " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Hello Hello … hardly what you 'd call grief with a large G. I smell a con . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sure what you 'd like . |
| 3 | He had on what you 'd now call a yuppie look — baggy trousers and braces . |
| 4 | ‘ I was n't sure what you 'd want to do , ’ Rose said with the utmost caution , ‘ and I brought a flask of tea and sandwiches just in case . ’ |
| 5 | People are very seldom exactly what you 'd like them to be |
| 6 | Tell me what you 'd like to happen . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If you do n't know what you 'd choose to do on the last day of your life , you do n't know what 's really important to you . |
| 8 | ‘ To get into the group at all , you have to say what you 'd do if you knew you were going to die tomorrow . |
| 9 | That 's about what you 'd expect for a tractor of this size . |
| 10 | But he s not exactly what you 'd call keen on it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Unless it 's what you 'd like , for me to meet her . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't say I know any of what you 'd call good people . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , no , not exactly , not what you 'd call proof . |
| 14 | More or less what you 'd expect . ’ |
| 15 | That 's what you 'd expect from some of the bitter old farts who used to fill the magazine with self-indulgent whimsy about lawnmowers and the ex-colonial buffers who let their subscriptions lapse when India was granted independence . |
| 16 | I 'm not what you 'd call the retiring type , and I rarely flinch from a fight when I 'm sure of my own righteousness ; but there is one thing I can not cope with , and that is unprovoked aggression . |
| 17 | ‘ Only what you 'd expect . |
| 18 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |
| 19 | Friedman 's early guitar lessons were not what you 'd call fruitful , since his teacher was less than keen on showing Marty his favourite Frehley licks . |
| 20 | ‘ The music I listened to when I was growing up was mainly what you 'd call the ‘ British new wave invasion ’ — the Buzzcocks , Generation X , early XTC , Elvis Costello . |
| 21 | The quality of workmanship is what you 'd expect on an instrument costing just under thirteen hundred pounds and even if it was n't a limited edition I 'd still say it was worth the money . |
| 22 | The JD Tele wins out on knobs , since the Signature 's volume control is horribly graunchy — again , not what you 'd expect for this kind of money . |
| 23 | Position three , the middle one , is what you 'd expect it to be — both pickups in parallel for that nice , middle-of-the-road tone — and position four is the new sound . |
| 24 | The tone control has the ability to do exactly what you 'd expect , thickening the sound or leaving it open and bright . |
| 25 | I wonder what you 'd say if a reader wrote to you , appalled to find out the truth about her lover ? |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know what you 'd call mine . |
| 27 | Well , is n't that what you 'd expect from the company with the longest pedigree in pet healthcare ? |
| 28 | ‘ A lot of the time the changes in design are very small — they 're not what you 'd call major fashion changes . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I know what you 'd like to do — and it may surprise you , Kit , if I admit that part of me may even want to myself . |
| 30 | Sometimes his Spidergob mates gave him a bit of a skragging on account of it ; not like what you 'd skrag a Mad Dog or a Scarface , if you ever got the chance , ‘ course . |