Example sentences of "we would find " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Every time we started doing a piece of research , ’ said an NCC officer , ‘ we 'd find the CEGB then commissioned another research team to investigate the same thing . ’
2 If , after a stiff swig of nectar , we were to watch further developments , we 'd find that in another 100,000 years or so , or even longer , exactly the same thing would happen again , and the compass would swing back suddenly to its original position .
3 I 'm prepared to hazard a guess that if we searched your belongings we 'd find a perfectly respectable tube of toothpaste there . ’
4 If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ .
5 And , more touching , ‘ We 'd find that , while we 'd been asleep , she 'd piled all the ornaments on top of our bed .
6 So , we thought we 'd find out what young people want to know , and what they think of the education they 've had .
7 The way you wanted to do , and then we added all this lot up , we 'd find well , w the chance is more than a certainty .
8 Then , with a little luck , we 'd find a comfortable hiding place and wait for Famlio and everyone to forget about us .
9 Or we 'd find out if there 's a special-needs school in the area which would benefit from special equipment for handicapped children .
10 Even if she did claim to know who it was we 'd find it difficult to convince a judge , without far more proof than I have at the moment . ’
11 If we had n't heard so much about him from Robert , we 'd find it impossible to imagine that this bloke was anything but the most upright of citizens . ’
12 Where we — where I used to live , in the hole … there was a place along the road where humans came to eat , and sometimes we 'd find stuff like this among the rubbish bins at the back .
13 I think we 'd find Mr Churchill that it it 's rather more complex than that and and the requirements for delivering a nuclear weapon and you refer to the possibility of C A S O M being nuclear capable , one has to be fairly careful quite a , there 's a degree of difference between a missile needed to do the two jobs and I think it would be rather more than wiring which would be er at issue here , there 's the payload and all the rest of it which I suspect would cause very severe problems with that .
14 How many people do you think we 'd find ?
15 They erm wa when we to we , we were staying at the Claremont and I do n't , oh , I think we just decided we 'd find a cup of coffee .
16 It 's fin okay if we 're looking for a thirtieth we 'd find thirty in there .
17 Yet it is not the reality of a naturalistic drama , such as we would find in , say , Ibsen or Chekhov .
18 And each time we visited the mountains , we would find the Syrians not an inch nor even a metre but at least a mile nearer to Beirut .
19 The Thais are very keen on transvestism ; way off any tourist route we would find them , making up and giggling , modelling clothes for each other and generally being girlish .
20 On every occasion there was a suicide attempt , we would find out that the other had attempted suicide at the identical time , even though they may have been hundreds of miles apart and not seen each other for months .
21 In fact , were we able to modify the mind structure of another creature , we would find that we had ‘ miraculously ’ modified the body as well .
22 Each morning he would rise and make the fire to warm the house and , when the rest of the family came downstairs , we would find him in his armchair , elbows propped on spread knees and braces straining against vested shoulders as they heaved with suppressed coughing .
23 ‘ If it were n't for the fact that we have to spend time and pay lawyers to deal with it , we would find the whole thing laughable , ’ E&Y 's marketing partner David Wilson told ACCOUNTANCY .
24 We decided that Masquerade would sail from the Bahamas to Panama , and thence to the Galapagos where we would find Darwin 's giant tortoises .
25 For each of these divisions we would find inequalities of outcome and it is in this sense that one can assert that we have failed to achieve equality of opportunity in England .
26 If we were now to consider the many sonnets of celebration of the Friend where the Thou outweighs the I we would find a similar dedication to the other without , I feel , any disabling by modern tastes — self-abnegation .
27 And then if we would find totally unacceptable we certainly would n't be prepared to do that
28 But we would find it extremely difficult to pay for his tuition as well .
29 Here , if we anticipate the arguments of later chapters , we would find Henry Fielding already mulling over the fall of decadent Rome and its lesson for Old England , and warning in his Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers ( 1751 ) of the disastrous effects of ‘ too frequent and expensive diversions among the lower kind of people ’ .
30 The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform .
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