Example sentences of "it [be] [Wh det] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | After much consideration their contribution to Pot of Gold will go out … their manager says it 's what they would have wanted … |
| 2 | ‘ I did what I could ; it 's what anyone would have done . ’ |
| 3 | And like , you always think to yourself like you always think to yourself , yeah , you know I would tell someone and if it 's what you would |
| 4 | ‘ The designs come from the same drawing pads as the haute couture I create — it 's what I would call ‘ my handwriting ’ , ’ he explains , ‘ but with clever fabric buying , we are keeping the prices down . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's what I would call an ecological holocaust , ’ said the leader of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's not an unusual reaction ; in fact it 's what I would expect . |
| 7 | Roger White , senior tax partner at KPMG , says that it 's what he would do if he were Chancellor . |
| 8 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 9 | ‘ It was what you would have wanted , Papa , was it not ? ’ she whispered . |
| 10 | Aside from the Bishop , it was what you would expect . |
| 11 | It was what anyone would say , anyone used to politics or business or the world of affairs generally . |
| 12 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 13 | It was what she would have wished for me : her sister , her friend . |
| 14 | It was what he would do if he caught her that worried her , Maria reflected drily . |