Example sentences of "[pers pn] would put " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 2 | I rang again and the agent said she thought I 'd put the phone down . ’ |
| 3 | But after you reach a certain stage in life — I 'd put it somewhere between forty-five and fifty-five — you suddenly feel you are as secure as you can be and you really ought to give something back to society . |
| 4 | Jack and the vet ( who turned out to be an Irishman too ) drinking whiskey which they thought was brandy because I 'd put it into a brandy bottle … |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd put money on it . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd never wear anything clingy ; I might wear a camisole , like this , but I 'd put a shirt over it before I went out . |
| 7 | If I was walking past a building site , I 'd put my head down , trying not to have eye contact with anyone , but I 'd be expecting it anyway — not because I 'm pretty , but because if it 's summer and you 're a girl and , say wearing shorts , it 's inevitable . |
| 8 | When I got past I 'd put my head up again , as if to say , ‘ I do n't care ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd put in as much as I could and got out as much as possible at YPN . |
| 10 | But — I 'd put it differently . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd put a dirk in one of them , and then where would you be , and you trying to convince the king of your peaceable nature ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd put the new tyre on , but I had n't tightened up the wheel . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd blacked my eyebrows till they were like tarmac , I 'd put raspberry-coloured gloss thick on my lips and I 'd done my eyelids in a limey shade of green . |
| 14 | The spot where I 'd put my stripy barrel-bag was empty . |
| 15 | I 'd put half a dozen 10p pieces in there to phone home , and I 'd only used one . |
| 16 | I 'd put on a frilly pink dress and dance to next door 's rock music — they had it on super-loud , the walls shook . |
| 17 | I 'd put her in a total dither . |
| 18 | I pursued the howling dog , hands clawed and teeth bared , stopping only when my rage was replaced by the realisation that for the first time in my life I 'd put another human being before myself . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought someone was trying to have a joke at my expense and was n't convinced even after I 'd put the phone down . |
| 20 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 21 | As she was to tell one of her oldest friends : ‘ I only wish I 'd put my foot down with them years ago . ’ |
| 22 | United boss Dave Bassett has no doubts : ‘ I 'd put Brian Deane in the England team . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd put a tape on and turn the radio off . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not a betting man , Miss Mackenzie , but if I were I 'd put my shirt on your being able to do just that . |
| 25 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 26 | I was saying ‘ No ’ , I 'd put all the arguments as to why she should n't be there . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd put that glass down very carefully if I were you . |
| 28 | I 'd put on the pressure , really hard . |
| 29 | So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it . |
| 30 | That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up . |