Example sentences of "you would [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for example , to find all the recordings of music by Bach you would specify a condition meaning composer equals Bach . |
| 2 | Read a piece as you would tell a bed-time story to a sleepy six-year-old . |
| 3 | Perhaps you would prefer a crack at archery , however . |
| 4 | Perhaps you would prefer a walking holiday in beautiful surroundings ; and , if so , the Country-wide Holiday Association or Holiday Fellowship might be for you . |
| 5 | For example , the Tamil phoneme /t/ has three variants ; To master these variants of Tamil /t/ you would prepare a list of words for each phonetic environment affecting the /t/ ( note that the Tamil words are written phonemically and not phonetically , as the environment shows what the pronunciation should be ) : Collect words as similar as possible to highlight the conditioning factor . |
| 6 | Making a pit is not a job you would pay a builder to do . |
| 7 | Describe how you would conduct a study to investigate the well-being of such ex-patients . |
| 8 | I should be grateful if you would send a receipt . |
| 9 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 10 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 11 | McMenemy added : ‘ As I understand it Graham said that in an ideal world the longer the lay-off the more games you would hope a player would have before his next England appearance . |
| 12 | Having said that , you would miss a lot in British politics if you were to put all your interpretative eggs into the basket of corporatist theory . |
| 13 | So , I am not about to preach , but I feel that you would welcome a glimpse of the future before it arrives . |
| 14 | ‘ I can well imagine that somebody like you would strike a woman . |
| 15 | The swimfeeder is attached to the line in the same way you would attach a link-leger , with a swivel , ring , or loop of line that runs on the main line . |
| 16 | When I got home I said , ‘ They ought to know you better than think you would marry a prostitute . ‘ |
| 17 | More than that and you would get a belt on your hand for every one that was incorrect . |
| 18 | For that — according to one of his advertisements of 1867 — you would get a hearse and two coaches with four horses each , plus all the necessary equipments , shell , lead coffin , outer case ( handsomely finished ) covered with velvet or fine cloth , with enamelled furniture . |
| 19 | You would get a lot of people coming down from there . |
| 20 | but you would get a lot of current flowing . |
| 21 | If you have paid contributions for , say , 25 years , out of a working life of 39 , you would get a pension of 74 per cent of the full amount . |
| 22 | Sometimes you lost a shop steward erm notwithstanding sometimes if the work study department needed a er an extra man er you would lose a shop steward . |
| 23 | You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today . |
| 24 | Explain fully how you would plan a study of the use of leisure recreational reading ( i.e. not directly required by courses of study ) among students of a college of higher education . |
| 25 | But do n't assume that you would need a Caesarean again . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems that you would need a vessel such as that in which you came , before you would be able to return to your own world . |
| 27 | A glance through any of the larger component catalogues will show that the number of different components currently in use is so large that even if you could afford to buy one or two of everything , you would need a warehouse to store it all . |
| 28 | And I thought , you would need a miracle to get up there . |
| 29 | If your hair is damaged from a chemical service ( such as a tint or bleach ) , you would need a protein treatment such as Redken 's PPT ‘ S77 ’ . |
| 30 | There seem to be so many additives available for marine tanks that you would need a store room in which to keep them all . |