Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well erm David said that he did n't think the strike would have gone on or they would n't have the heart to go on without the women ? |
| 2 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 3 | ( One even refused to stand down although he would have been seventy-six at the time of the next election . ) |
| 4 | we would n't object yes , it was very you know , the emphasis was very different and just as the you know the emphasis on , on the handover erm , he wrote down that we would be happy to stand down and in fact what we said was we |
| 5 | Fabia had known all along that he would be furious if he ever found out . |
| 6 | and this is why military strategies have always said we were gon na get we could hold them for a year , two years maybe three , but in the preventional warfare we would start loosing and military strategy have always said along that it would probably be somebody like France or us that would first use the nuclear weapon |
| 7 | He must have known all along that she would run into this set-back . |
| 8 | Er but we like say do n't want to put everything in cos it would take you a while to analyze that but that 's another thing you might want to put on . |
| 9 | he offered the house for all the brothers to come in and they would laid out er sandwiches and the cakes and er quiche that you 've made and er different , different things you know , we all went to back to their house . |
| 10 | And they would be sent in and we would sometimes sew up the the cushions . |
| 11 | And should you be careless enough to get your fingers caught in there , well that would be the end , it would draw you in and it would chop your fingers and your arm off in in half inch er bits you know . |
| 12 | Why on earth eighteen months ago did the district auditor issue a letter saying that unless the council did something about the situation of numbers and of finance within its elderly persons homes then it would come in and it would require the council to take action . |
| 13 | Plug it in and it would work ? |
| 14 | log book in and it would come back . |
| 15 | Better stop and walk to the Post Office Sorting Office — the light is closing in and I would rather do the mile there and mile back in daylight . |
| 16 | Erm we did get a woman later on I think in this little cash desk where the money used to go in the machine you know and er , but you 'd go in and you would have , it used to intrigue me that er you 'd go in and the , the dairy goods was all one side and you , you would , you would , my brother and I would have our lists and it was , we were petrified that we case we made a mistake you know . |
| 17 | It was like er cage as the basket fitted in and he would go round . |
| 18 | He assured me they never put dogs down and they would try to help her build up trust in humans again before finding her a home . |
| 19 | And erm we used to kick this tin down the hill and er as I say it would roll down and we would all go and hide anywhere , back garden , front garden , over a wall , round a corner , anywhere like that you see . |
| 20 | ‘ When I got home I called the NRA freephone pollution number and I was told it was too dark and cold for anyone to go down and somebody would be there first thing in the morning . |
| 21 | In between shots , you want to sit and relax and not get hassled , but between shots he would sit down and there would be a ring of photographers round him going click ! click ! click ! |
| 22 | You see I think if I I 'm trying to en envisage it , if you are erm you , you live in an area and er there have been some er outbreaks of violence of , you know , a nasty nature , some people have been killed , there 's been sort of erm disruption and er and so on , I do n't know how you 'd feel , I think you may feel erm a bit concerned about this , you 'd see things breaking down and you would n't see quite where it 's going to , to lead . |
| 23 | If he believed Maureen would run things the way he wanted and her father might blunder into a union trap and have the paper shut down and he would have nowhere to publish his views , then he might have killed MacQuillan ? ’ |
| 24 | If he was a painter it would be wonderful ( he 'd be like John Bratby , much better ) , he 'd be able to set Nottingham down and it would be wonderful in paint . |
| 25 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 26 | And then she ran upstairs and grabbed the other phone and Fred had to put phone down cos she would n't shut up . |
| 27 | So that 's one of my hobbies , I do n't know whether I 'll be going to Nepal or anywhere like that again , but it , I 've certainly got er lots of happy memories of that experience and er I 've brought erm a photo album erm with some of my pictures in if anyone would like to have a look |
| 28 | You can perform relaxation exercises lying down but we would prefer if you try initially sitting in a comfortable armchair . |
| 29 | I mean when , when , when she was home she could have spent the evening with us when all the children were there and joined in but she would n't , she cleared out back and that 's how Julie heard |
| 30 | He put his finger in but it would n't hop on to it . |