Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [noun] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were the patient I would hope someone would have the common sense not to operate on me . |
| 2 | You might , were you in the celebrity business , react like literary agent Ed Victor : ‘ If I were the agent I would step on some jugulars to come home with $5 million for world-wide rights to the book and the film . ’ |
| 3 | Well , I feel you are the person I would most like to save from hell . |
| 4 | Both she and John Smith have denied suggestions that they are running mates on a ‘ dream ticket ’ , but she is the deputy he would prefer . |
| 5 | I suppose she was the sort who would normally have been commissioned , but , all credit to her , she opted for the ranks and she was certainly finding out how the other half lived . |
| 6 | For if it were the man himself would crumble . |
| 7 | Well it er I was very it 's not a stately home it 's the equivalent I would say to a sort of erm lower landed gentry upper er working class sort of place . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's pleasant and charming , it 's the world I would like to live in . |
| 9 | Of all the European institutions , it is the Parliament which would seem , amid controversy , to be poised to be a central democratic force in the construction of Europe . |
| 10 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 11 | He is the man we would like . ’ |
| 12 | He reflected that , after all , it was the attitude he would wish to see adopted by her with their own servants , when they should have them ; and handed her into the jeweller 's . |
| 13 | ‘ It was the way he would have liked it , ’ Sister Cooney said . |
| 14 | It was the way he would always address us : foreigner . |
| 15 | His best friend says it was the way he would have wanted to go |
| 16 | Despite the fact that the Whitney Museum was the first to show the photographs of the notorious late Robert Mapplethorpe , and only recently declared that it was creating a department of photography , the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced last month that it was the Guggenheim it would be patronising with gifts in money and kind . |
| 17 | ‘ He was a great friend and , like Noel Coward , he wrote the kind of dialogue that was easy to remember because it was the kind you would like to write yourself but could n't , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Government sources said , however , that in the end it was the conditions which would eventually determine timing of British participation . |