Example sentences of "[pers pn] would only [vb infin] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we could actually drive the monitor off the box and you 'd only need one socket . |
| 2 | Well you 'd only need four teacher 's packs oh and there 'd be five , one for the tutor and er , four teachers so you could , you know |
| 3 | If they 're not very fanciable , you say , ‘ He 's only a Tuesday , ’ meaning if he asked you out you 'd only keep one night of the week free for him . |
| 4 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 5 | She would only have one shot , and she had to be ready to make it count . |
| 6 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 7 | But you would only approach that business on the basis that well the estate agent has asked me to give you er you know he he feels that you would benefit and erm from this exposure and er has asked me to approach you first . |
| 8 | And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching . |
| 9 | The Policyholder may move to a guest house or hotel but we would only pay reasonable accommodation costs , commensurate with the standard of the existing accommodation . |
| 10 | He did say that with the mass attendance at around about nine hundred that we would only get one priest |
| 11 | They 'd only drink doped water if it smelled all right to them . ’ |
| 12 | He knew he would only get one chance with the plastic . |
| 13 | I could feel an awful churning going on down there , and I was sure it would only end one way , but I could n't move . |
| 14 | One of the members [ almost certainly Francis Maginn ] intended to urge the adoption of the word " deaf " only at the Congress , but seeing that it would only cause much loss of time to no purpose he allowed his motion to drop for the present . |
| 15 | It would only take one phone call to blow her cover . |