Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not have given you the task otherwise ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Naturally , but you 'd still have to say what the story was before you were offered anything for it . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd probably have given us a proper meal and , and — ‘ |
| 4 | We 'd really like to give you a good day . |
| 5 | If I 'd known you were prone to nightmares I 'd never have told you the story ! ’ |
| 6 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 7 | If he does this easily enough we probably would not bother to call it a " problem " , but in a sense it is . |
| 8 | Several minutes later he added : ‘ But I would not like to give you the impression I have worked for either of them yet . ’ |
| 9 | But Det Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , said : ‘ We are treating the incident as a crime but I would not like to say what the nature of the crime is at this stage . ’ |
| 10 | I would not like to think what the wrong type would do to , say , the bacteria in your filter ! |
| 11 | It was a joke really , because if she was one of the male officers then she would not have given it a second thought . |
| 12 | She was less close to Gildas , whom she regarded with some slight awe , for she feared his irony and his sharp tongue , and would not have allowed him the slightest ‘ liberty ’ had he not cleverly , for he was very clever , ‘ set up , a conversation which led her , through a series of exchanges , into the danger area . |
| 13 | St Paul was not ‘ ordained ’ — and would not have known what the term connoted . |
| 14 | After such discussion one of the men would usually offer to show us a wild cocoa tree in the forest beyond his planted clearings . |
| 15 | These were the only wickets Martin took in the match , but his allround contributions would probably have earned him the Man of the Match award had such been on offer in those days . |
| 16 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 17 | This will help you decide if you would really like to do what the employer has on offer . |
| 18 | Erm , and I , I think it 's quite beyond belief that these sort of accidents as well as the major road accidents are n't taken into consideration for our S S A , and particularly in a county like Shropshire , where there 's very little but grain in a lot of places , and that erm , money has to be found But , I would , I would really like to hear what the Officer |
| 19 | I would n't want to hear it every night , but tonight it took the breath away with its doomed glamour . |
| 20 | ‘ You would n't consider giving me a clue as to what this is all about ? ’ |
| 21 | I would n't like to say what the impact will be on my business |
| 22 | ‘ You would n't mind organizing them a bit , would you ? |
| 23 | Perhaps the doctor would n't mind giving me a lift that morning when he drives up to town . ’ |
| 24 | I am going to be away Thurs–Sun this week ( Roland , my brother , is getting married and I 'm to be bridesmaid ) but perhaps you would n't mind giving me a ring sometime ? |
| 25 | I 've found out more about it now , so if you would n't mind giving him a message , Ruth ? |
| 26 | You would n't have believed what a bright and with-it little woman she was when I first started here . ’ |
| 27 | You would n't have given her a second glance that evening , amid the florid , the fancy and the flash . |
| 28 | It was gratifying to have people shake her hand who once would n't have given her the time of day , and when she walked through the dreary rooms where evidence of the late Adelaide Morey still abounded she had trouble convincing herself that she was now the mistress here . |
| 29 | I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old . |
| 30 | As my wife said later that day , ‘ One look at your face and I would n't have given you a job . |