Example sentences of "would [verb] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 'd want to be as much away from the air conditioning as possible , would n't they ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can see you 'd want to be there if Dana was discovered with Garry , ’ she laughed . |
| 3 | ‘ The doc offered one of your safe houses , but I did n't think you 'd want to be that much involved . |
| 4 | Well w we said we 'd prefer to be upstairs |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd need to be much better to be up with Alan in the results , ’ he says ‘ but I 'm improving . |
| 6 | You see yo really you 'd need to be you 'd need to be only need to be paying back about four grand you see , though ? |
| 7 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 8 | There 'd appear to be out of this office . |
| 9 | I know he deserves to be punished , but when the time comes I 'd like to be around to stick up for him . ’ |
| 10 | If it 's fine tomorrow I 'd like to be up to catch the tide . |
| 11 | but I mean other than that , I , I , I 'd like to be dead cautious about that , I , I still think it 's early days , I know we 've made a great success , but it 's early days . |
| 12 | They should encourage the client to commit him/herself to something specific , i.e. , ‘ I 'd like to stop having panic attacks ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to be able to catch the train up to London ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to understand and cope more effectively with my anxiety symptoms ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to be more relaxed giving presentations at work ’ . |
| 13 | I 'd like to be back in that time again … |
| 14 | I 'd like to be very clear here that emotionally and using emotions now against your intellect , I think it 's very dangerous and it is we like to avoid this . |
| 15 | I think first of all , I 'd like to be very brief , but just to say the purpose of this short report with the appendices has not got any special status with food control , just set the record straight as to what we are capable of doing currently and what we ca n't do . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd like to be out there — not in this dark room . |
| 17 | ‘ No , but we 'd like to be there at the beginning so that we could if we want to , then run away , ’ Eve explained . |
| 18 | The infamous John Carlos who made the black power gesture on the Olympic rostrum in 1968 became a source of inspiration : ‘ I said ‘ yeah , I 'd like to be there . ’ ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The art of interviewing is to put together various theories on the basis of the available evidence , not the evidence you 'd like to be there . |
| 20 | I 'd like to be in on that . |
| 21 | In the meantime we 've got 24 notebooks to give away , so if you 'd like to be in with a chance of winning one , send a postcard with your name , age , address and pack name to : BROWNIE /Notebook Offer , . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh no , I 'd hate to be either . |
| 23 | Oh , yes , you 'd have to be away from the town . |
| 24 | So I mean she 'd have to be a very speculative investor , she 'd have to be right up to er adventurous , for her to think about that . |
| 25 | Well it 'd have to be somewhere |
| 26 | ‘ The National Front Disco ’ is such a self-evidently silly title and the sentiments and tone so obviously satirical that you 'd have to be pretty blinkered to be offended by it . |
| 27 | RISC is the right word — DEC may have got everything right first time , but as a third party with a choice , you 'd have to be pretty desperate to bet the shop on it . |
| 28 | You 'd have to be pretty desperate to want — anything like that with someone who looks like me . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd have to be incredibly stupid , or as shallow as he is . |
| 30 | There is a tiny hole at the end , and if you go into this hole ( you 'd have to be as small as a fig wasp to do so , and they are minute : thankfully too small to notice when you eat a fig ) , you find hundreds of tiny flowers lining the walls . |