Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now I am teaching a little I would find too many things wrong . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four |
| 3 | But mostly I would think it would be |
| 4 | Promotion to Vice-Questore seemed certain and the general feeling was that if I played my cards right I would make Questore in the end . |
| 5 | Right I would say |
| 6 | I mean I er er I mean I just do n't know how you , you begin and end with this actually I mean I really do n't and I mean I think quite frankly if Hydro Electric were to go out and say okay , we will fund the purchase of twenty houses four bedrooms each for the homeless right I would have thought in terms of doing something I mean I walk round Princes Street and I see those poor sods and I say to myself |
| 7 | I knew that eventually I would have to walk into that screaming cloud . |
| 8 | Most importantly I would like to thank all those involved both as ‘ fund raisers ’ and ‘ sponsors ’ for their support and I hope that their sterling efforts will inspire you to undertake more new fund raising projects . |
| 9 | I said well it 's up to the teachers , I said , you ca n't expect me , I mean if there was if he was picked on I would go down there but I mean if he 's being naughty then it 's up to the teachers to sort him out |
| 10 | I before Ghost is on I would think . |
| 11 | ‘ While the play was on I would get home in the early hours of the morning and then Maisie would wake me up really early . |
| 12 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 13 | A man like that can always replace his front-line troops , so to get only them would have been pointless . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps nothing would embarrass God more than if every one of His creatures took His Word literally and to heart . |
| 15 | Ruth put her face in her hands and listened to them go , hoping perhaps everyone would forget her now . |
| 16 | If only someone would invent ski-tows that could be folded up and packed away after the season . |
| 17 | If only someone would invent a lubricating oil for bird watchers … |
| 18 | If only someone would explain these things to me , but I was too shy and scared to ask . |
| 19 | But then a god-like creature appeared , and I protested to him — her ? — that if I was a monster , then monsters were GOOD creatures — I was good , truly I was — if only someone would kiss me like in fairytales . |
| 20 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 21 | Return I do n't quite unders can somebody tell me what each indiv I mean basically I would have expected to see the money earned divided by the , the number of staff telling me how much |
| 22 | I had to laugh at myself for thinking rather longingly now that I should miss it this year , and especially I would miss Addy , whom I loved . |
| 23 | ‘ As a retailer , naturally I would prefer to see added value rather than price cutting , ’ she adds . |
| 24 | I count it a privilege to have been asked to become its chairman — though naturally I would wish it had been in happier circumstances . |
| 25 | From then until the end of the trip , every time I thought I had had enough I would repeat , ‘ This is what the trip 's about . |
| 26 | He was convinced that if he tried hard enough and often enough I would go to bed with him . |
| 27 | When Anna 's feeling well enough I would like us to be married in the same chapel as my sister and Boz . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If you do well enough I would consider it . ’ |
| 29 | Just to think , he said he would dance every dance with me if only I would stay . |
| 30 | like that , only I would like him to get this |