Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 2 | They turned this way and that to hie or wheesh or tcht tcht or whoa ; and of course , I have no doubt the horses were so tired they would have found their way home any way . |
| 3 | Anyway , if she were so ill it would look funny taking the children — and I 'm not leaving them with her ! ’ |
| 4 | If this solution were not efficient we would have , for some ( x 1 , x 2 , … , x n ) , and multiplying the first of these by W K and the remainder by w k and summing gives which would contradict the assumed optimality of ( x 1 * , … , x n ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you use tools and weapons ? ’ we asked , and were not sure she would understand those terms . |
| 6 | We were always confident they would stay on , despite all the pressures being put on them . |
| 7 | If she were totally honest she would admit that over these last few weeks there had always been the memory of that party , the memory of him , his hostility , his unjustness . |
| 8 | If the arrivals of comets in the inner Solar System were totally haphazard we would have little reason to believe such ideas . |
| 9 | And if Punch were ever stuck he would get a cartoon of er one or other of the brothers sitting in parliament knitting . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the data suggest that if levels were more accurate they would have been lower in the peptic ulcer group . |
| 11 | If she were more nervous we 'd have reached the Topper . |
| 12 | Whenever things were really bad we 'd talk … ’ |
| 13 | To be honest , we were n't sure we 'd sell all our tickets for the replay , but they all went by Thursday and if we get the same backing , we must have a chance . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah if you were n't ignorant you 'd know there 's four parts to a choir and not just one section . |
| 15 | Without the knowledge that the grains were initially uniform it would have been impossible to reconstruct the original population ( Krumbein , 1934 ) . |
| 16 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |
| 17 | If they were that good they would have told you to forget it until you had a good message or product to project ! |
| 18 | Wycombe were beaten by Bob Taylor 's 82nd-minute winner , and their disconsolate boss Martin O'Neill said : ‘ I was actually looking forward to extra-time because I was so sure we would win . |
| 19 | I asked the University if I could be last to get my degree , I was so sure he 'd make it back in time . |
| 20 | ‘ I asked the University if I could be last to get my degree , I was so sure he 'd make it back in time . |
| 21 | I was so sure I would fail , |
| 22 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 23 | But I was so confident I would feel the solidness of either chub or root my reactions are not prepared to stop at the end of the strike . |
| 24 | Fourteen-year-old RACHEL SEATON was so bored she 'd have rather spent the 30 minutes doing her homework . |
| 25 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
| 26 | I was so scared you 'd notice I was avoiding you — that was the last thing I wanted — but I simply could n't bear to watch you struggle . |
| 27 | It was so ugly I would 've |
| 28 | I was so hungry I 'd have eaten pork scratchings . |
| 29 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 30 | She adored the game so much , Luke only had to shift his weight or touch her mouth to get her to do what he wanted , and she was so competitive she would bump anyone , at first even riding off ponies on her own side . |