Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If I did leave it , I 'd stay up in the evening to do it , it 'd be on my conscience …
2 She wondered if he 'd stay on in the motel business , or move out .
3 Oh , and I 'd stay out of the swimming pool for a few days if I were you , unless you can keep your head above water .
4 I thought I 'd wait up for the early morning newscast on the radio . ’
5 But then the feet began to stretch wider and wider apart , and I knew that when the feet were as far apart as I was long , I 'd fall through to the heaving belly beneath .
6 He 'd jump up in the morning to see his friends again
7 I 'd ease up on the hard stuff if I were you .
8 You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ?
9 You know me , I run with the hare an' hunt with the hounds : I 'd suck up to the devil himself for a penny . ’
10 Perhaps you 'd carry on with the Leicester ladies , and Gladys Brown . ’
11 ‘ If only she 'd clear off into the dower house , ’ she told herself , ‘ I could really improve things here . ’
12 Co fall out the bucket you see on the when they over the top tumbler that 'd splash on into the chute , there used to be a chute , take it right into the harbour .
13 If I were you I 'd schlepp down to the disco and get yourself some trade , dear , otherwise you 'll burst ! ’
14 They 'd haunt the alleys behind bakeries , they 'd help themselves from uncollected deliveries , they 'd stick around on the embankment for midnight handouts from the Salvation Army and the Krishna Temple .
15 Every time I heard the wind rustling in the bushes or rattling the slates I 'd duck down under the covers , thinking of hooded ghosts stomping through the garden — or through the wall .
16 You had to eat yourself , of course , so there was a s You 'd run up to the hotel in called the Hotel and opposite was a family butcher and he used to sell dripping and bread .
17 ‘ When I could n't find you I thought maybe you 'd run off with the professor . ’
18 I 'd meet up with the others again on top and we 'd descend together .
19 Now , Mr. Donahue is not , repeat not , the kind of guy who 'd meet up with the Fender boffins over a coffee and casually say : ‘ Hey , give it a kinda , uh , cool neck and some real hot pickups and paint it killer pink , and that 'll be just great … ’
20 First we would sit down and plan out our day ; second , we 'd decide what we expected to get out of each day , in terms of knowledge and experience ; third , we 'd go to work , and , finally , we 'd meet back at the house in the late afternoon .
21 He 'd stand in the doorway and watch Nathan tinkering with his bike and then , when Nathan looked round , he 'd step back into the shadows .
22 If I could see the one-eyed god down there now I 'd lean out of the window and tell it everything .
23 I 'm not sure though of where he 'd fit in under the current team structure .
24 Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her .
25 As she 'd set off down the drive her one thought had been that perhaps it was n't too late .
26 ‘ Very nice , ’ said Joe , eyeing the purchases , she 'd set out on the bed , ‘ but explain why it 's taken you all day . ’
27 ‘ She did n't say that , ’ he replied , the ebullience with which he 'd set out for the Greens ' household nowhere to be seen .
28 Also Simon is one of my best mates and I knew he 'd buckle down with the right team if he was in with a chance of winning . ’
29 Well I know Bon said er they 'd they 'd cut down on the recruiting in fact , I think they 'd closed one of the hospitals in Bristol in the Frenchay where she is has actually got to take erm qualified nurses from that hospital before they take student nurses that they 've trained
30 ‘ He said he 'd call in on the way home . ’
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