Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 2 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 3 | And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located . |
| 4 | I would like to say something at some point about the point I made earlier about going , increasingly as you go down this list , you depart in directions which are , er , contrary to your policies , but |
| 5 | ‘ We would like to have her at home . |
| 6 | Luke looked as if he would like to throw something at her . |
| 7 | If your correspondent would like to contact me at Belfast 246113 , I would be happy to discuss the circumstances of the case to which he/she refers . |
| 8 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 9 | She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and … |
| 10 | ‘ Swindon are a good side , but we would have beaten them at Ayresome Park but for a crazy final ten minutes . ’ |
| 11 | He realised that if he was to be successful he would have to take them at speed . |
| 12 | Fagin , with his sharp , suspicious eyes , would have noticed something at once . |
| 13 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 14 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 15 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 16 | How happy it would have made her at any other time . |
| 17 | For a new act , I would have to pitch them at the right venue for their type of music . |
| 18 | Maggie was puzzling over it as Felipe came out and normally she would have told him at once , but he was not alone . |
| 19 | ‘ I would have told it at once , ’ she said ruefully , ‘ but that it would not have helped him . |
| 20 | Far from hearing only half-an-hour from Michael Heseltine 's statement on the pit closures , a news network would have carried it at length . |
| 21 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 22 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 23 | ‘ He would say if you want to get me , you would have to get me at eight o'clock in the morning . ’ |
| 24 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 25 | Chances were he would have taken her at her word . |
| 26 | You called your wife a tart , which is your business and hers , but you also said that if you 'd known where she 'd gone you would have caught her at it . |
| 27 | The man in question , one of those footmanly types , Twit ( first class ) — pencil thin spray-on hair and pained costive expression — was , as they would have put it at his public school , ‘ being ragged ’ by rough children from the village . |
| 28 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
| 29 | In short , they should establish the kind of position in which they would wish to see themselves at the end of that period . |
| 30 | Quite simply , such an additional demand for the currencies concerned would help keep them at a higher level , with a consequent reduction in their export surpluses . |