Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not afraid of falling off , look you ; I love riding , ’ cried Deborah indignantly , ‘ and I 'd rather go home on horseback than by car . |
| 2 | If I must vegetate , I 'd rather do so at home , in spite of the undoubtedly superior ménage here . |
| 3 | We 'd just sit there in silence . |
| 4 | If I only took the big parts and none of this TV crap I 'd just go away to film , and then when I was around I 'd really be around . |
| 5 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed , ‘ but I thought I 'd just say so in case you got the wrong idea . ’ |
| 6 | So then this fellow comes to the phone , obviously his missus had entered it and he did n't have a bloody clue that she 'd gone in for it and he 'd just come home from work and er Annika Rice there , saying oh where is she ? |
| 7 | ‘ I would rather stay here with father and you , ’ said Tess , looking out of the window . |
| 8 | However , as with the proposed Legco referendum , the vote would only go ahead after approval by the Legco , the chief executive and the NPC standing committee . |
| 9 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 10 | While C2 Certificate holders would normally proceed directly into employment , there should , however , be opportunities for some students to acquire credits allowing them eventually to obtain a C1 Certificate . |
| 11 | She felt now that her future was settled : her uncle would soon go away to sea ; Tristram would be freer to be seen in her company and perhaps , if her prayers were answered , they would be able to persuade Aunt Ann to let them be married . |
| 12 | She pointed out that the plaster would soon fall away without paint . |
| 13 | It would soon become so in parts of the northwest region of Xinjiang where long-suppressed grievances of the Uighur Muslim majority have begun to break out . ) |
| 14 | Only he was too dirty for a satyr , who would probably wash frequently in mountain streams . |
| 15 | If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life . |
| 16 | It is too early to know of any false negatives but these would probably arise only by laboratory or administrative error . |
| 17 | Glancing to his left , he wondered why the Bogeyman chose to live in a room on the first-floor landing instead of making his lair in the cellar , where he would surely feel more at home . |
| 18 | The case would then fall squarely within section 82(1) ( g ) and therefore the conclusion at p. 162 of the judgment referred to by Scott L.J . |
| 19 | The canal would then drive southwards to Norton near to Long Buckby , keeping to the high ground and passing through tunnels at Husbands Bosworth and Crick , descending to the Grand Junction through five locks . |
| 20 | Buses that would otherwise sit unproductively in garages could be turned out to provide services for doctors ' surgeries , shopping and social trips . |
| 21 | But he would never talk badly about Kenneth Horne , or about the writers . ’ |
| 22 | Whether we would be correct to conclude from this that in manic-depression mania was produced by a quasi-toxic suppression of the superego I do not know , but if would certainly accord well with Freud 's suggestion that in the manic interludes in depression we witness ‘ a magnificent festival of the ego , which might then once again feel satisfied with itself ’ . |
| 23 | She would certainly turn away in disgust . |