Example sentences of "you would [vb infin] a [noun] " 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 | Carey stood up , the fish held in the crook of his arm , as you would hold an infant . |
| 3 | Read a piece as you would tell a bed-time story to a sleepy six-year-old . |
| 4 | Perhaps you would prefer a crack at archery , however . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Making a pit is not a job you would pay a builder to do . |
| 8 | Describe how you would conduct a study to investigate the well-being of such ex-patients . |
| 9 | I should be grateful if you would send a receipt . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If you committed yourself to doing every exercise in Part Two in the order given , you would miss an opportunity to ‘ listen to the whispers ’ which guide you towards what you need , right now , as a unique individual . |
| 15 | So , I am not about to preach , but I feel that you would welcome a glimpse of the future before it arrives . |
| 16 | ‘ I can well imagine that somebody like you would strike a woman . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When I got home I said , ‘ They ought to know you better than think you would marry a prostitute . ‘ |
| 19 | More than that and you would get a belt on your hand for every one that was incorrect . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You would get a lot of people coming down from there . |
| 22 | but you would get a lot of current flowing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | places like that , then you would get an accent . |
| 25 | The other side showed the same ear of barley , in reverse , a template to cast the image ; if you pressed candle wax into this side of the coin , you would get an impression of the other face . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But do n't assume that you would need a Caesarean again . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |