Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] [vb infin] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would rather have the problems we 've got and still be in the European Cup than be without them and a place in the Champions League as well , ’ said the manager . |
| 2 | I would n't underestimate the problems of famine , but this is largely a question of mild distribution , and I think we 're learning to cope with it better than fifty years ago . |
| 3 | But I would n't wear the trousers or the hat ! ’ |
| 4 | I just know that I would n't sacrifice the experiences I 've had on drugs for anything . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't like it but I needed the money — the bastard threatened tae evict us from our caravan if I would n't train the lions — and I was scared of Raja and it knew I was scared and I got drunk and drunker and ’ — Paddy held his crutch aloft — ‘ ye see what happened . ’ |
| 6 | I would n't let the children grow up in this environment . |
| 7 | That I would n't pursue the issues of nineteen eighty six . |
| 8 | I would n't mind the rivers up there being a little more cluttered with them when next I return ! |
| 9 | ‘ I would just mime the words , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ I would not condemn the police , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Murray said : ‘ Each Rangers player is on a £70,000 bonus to win the European Cup , and I would happily sign the cheques today if we were guaranteed winning it . |
| 12 | But given a choice between , say , a 60-mm telescope and a pair of good binoculars , I would unhesitatingly prefer the binoculars . |
| 13 | I would therefore quash the decisions by ministers fixing the tariff period , and make the declarations proposed by Glidewell L.J . |
| 14 | I am not a prying woman , I have never really been interested in the affairs of others , I would never examine the contents of their drawers and cupboards and bathroom cabinets , as Isabel did , wherever we went to stay . |
| 15 | I seriously felt that I had lost my ‘ commercial sense ’ that I had before , and that I would never remember the intricacies of the High Court Rules , how to draft Court Pleadings or even how to write a sensible letter . |
| 16 | If she survived , he said , she would eventually meet the others , but there were many possible destinies . |
| 17 | Michele had asked for a promise that she would n't attempt the stairs , but she had n't given one , and if she was very careful … |
| 18 | She would n't name the colours . |
| 19 | Now it looked quite possible that she would n't need the services of an agency after all — that was , if Luke Travis offered her the job , and if she decided to accept . |
| 20 | She would not shed the tears that threatened . |
| 21 | Now used to kindness , she would not survive the streets of Cairo if they left her behind . |
| 22 | Soon she would not have the troops with which to maintain her responsible policy of granting independence only when a colony was politically , economically , and militarily ready to stand on its own feet . |
| 23 | Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ You would rather have the Conservatives in power ? ’ |
| 25 | You can travel two hundred miles on those roads and realize that some of the cars you started out with have done the trip with you ; but you would n't recognize the drivers . |
| 26 | You would n't reduce the batteries to reverse it to make it go the other way . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew you 'd tracked me down , so I thought if I only took some of it you would n't put the cops on me . |
| 28 | You would n't believe the things that turn up on our bill . |
| 29 | ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together . |
| 30 | Penney 's … well , you would n't know the names . |