Example sentences of "but [pron] would [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moderator four five nine Moderator I welcome the number two in the deliverance but I would make a plea to the er panel that this leaflet be a very simple leaflet and it not be brief , but in fact be quite lengthy . |
| 2 | But I would feel a bit snidey pretending that I do n't know them . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But I would welcome a pot of tea and a slice of your fruit loaf . ’ |
| 4 | But I would crave a boon for myself and my successors . |
| 5 | But I would give a king 's ransom for a good painter and craftsman . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Not very ; but I would like a drink , please . |
| 7 | It 's a view , I 'm not necessarily asking you to do any further statistical work but I would like a view on it , whether it 's tenable or not . |
| 8 | And in , certainly in the two cases that I 've just mentioned , those were the key worries that they had ; but I would hazard a guess and say those are the exceptions to the rule . |
| 9 | I would never go out like what Tony was saying you know he does n't drink at all and like he 'd be in a pub maybe seven days a week but I would take a drink now and again and I might n't go into a pub once in a month maybe . |
| 10 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 11 | but you would get a lot of current flowing . |
| 12 | But who would bowl a beamer at nice John Major ? |
| 13 | But we would add a word of caution : these are early days in the life of the cash flow statement and experience is needed to discover the most appropriate method of analysis . |
| 14 | That was some going– but we would have a place for him in any Palace gallery even without it . |
| 15 | Er and if if they would work they did n't want money for it but they would stay a while with you so that they would get their bed for the night and they would get their grub . |
| 16 | He said the world 's racing authorities could persecute him all they liked but he would find a spanner to throw in their works , and they 'd regret it . ’ |
| 17 | But he would have a drink and a warm bed awaiting him when he got rid of it . |
| 18 | And er from his conversation he appeared to be a homely sort of a chap and er he was outspoken but he would call a spade a spade . |
| 19 | She would like some sort of mobile communication to alert police , well it 's an interesting area , but it would cost a fortune to provide mobile phones |
| 20 | There was a chance they would try to rush him , but it would take a fraction of a second to release his grip on the open clothes-peg . |