Example sentences of "was [pron] would " in BNC.

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1 Tell you if I was I would n't see you .
2 I suppose if there was I would n't take her anyway , not not round this area .
3 If I knew where he was I would n't have come .
4 Well , what I knew was I would get no more .
5 If I 'd known what it was I would have chopped up that snow-plough before the snows arrived . ’
6 warm water , and then put Savlon cream on it , vet said you could n't have done any better , cos he gave him an antidote , before I new what it was I would have given him funny itching rash that was making the poor soul
7 Out of the other ones white if there was I would have chosen white .
8 I 've ever done , he said and I 'll be totally honest with you he said if I 'd have known how big it was I would n't have done the operation he said I really did n't know what I 've let myself in for , he said he 's had problems with
9 Now I was I would n't say surprised because the matter is already well know , but I found an additional piece of evidence for the proposition that while they knew a lot about what happened to their commodities in their countries — how it was produced , how it was distributed internally and how it was sold internationally — they generally did n't have very much information as to what happened afterwards .
10 All I said was I 'd take her and pick her up .
11 There was a pattern all right ; problem was I 'd misread it . ’
12 ‘ All I said was I 'd like to see the factory , ’ Janice whispered to Rory as they moved to follow Hamish .
13 I thought what I 'd do was I 'd have a bath , I thought I 'd put all the back in the fridge
14 The question was which would be the Nth power to acquire the bomb which would also be irresponsible enough to start the holocaust .
15 Now the squad that worked down there when anybody left there was nobody would take their place .
16 If the teacher criticised or even hit you then the last thing to do was complain at home because the certainty was you would be criticised or hit again .
17 Well there was you would er buy your errands and they was marked down in a book at the shop .
18 Yeah I just it just seems to me such a complete and utter waste of of , his time primarily for fifteen , I mean this being identified a year earlier which we reckon it was you would think that even given all the red tape and everything else
19 Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current .
20 Anybody want anything he was there , his name was and he used to run up like er tally , tallyman he was you 'd pay at the most ten shillings down about two and six a week , something like that .
21 No I mean the fireplace was you 'd get about three chairs round it , it was it was crowded .
22 Erm , let's say you had a client who knew how much they could afford to spend , so what you were doing then was you 'd tell them how much life cover you could afford .
23 But , when , when they can but you 've ju i in the Empire if you , if you 've I do n't know actually , i before they before they messed about with all the raised seating and everything , if it had been just left open like the Old Floral Hall , like it was you 'd have got seventeen
24 Yet had she been asked what that destination was she would have been hard put to it to answer .
25 ‘ Wherever Steve was she would find him , ’ one recalls .
26 She had no idea what he intended , but whatever it was she would go with Felipe wherever he led .
27 She it was who would carry Robert half-way around the world on more than one occasion , until , in the end , she returned without him .
28 The only big question now was who would stay on .
29 When Cleveland 's Liberals held a Press conference to announce their three women candidates , all that the silly men reporters wanted to know was who 'd be at home doing the washing up .
30 What had been said was we would be open to the poss I ca n't remember now the exact words he used , but
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