Example sentences of "would [verb] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 2 | You would want to stop and change over when we 're right beside the river would n't you ? |
| 3 | THE last thing I would want to see and hear over my corn flakes is Anne Diamond , lovely though she is , presenting syrupy , romantic drivel written by Dame Barbara Cartland . |
| 4 | It had not occurred to him that Jessica 's behaviour might have put a suitor off , more that Parr would want to go and smack her cheeky face , as he would have done . |
| 5 | Probably because you would want to go and play . |
| 6 | Michael Heseltine ( 1987 , p. 138 ) has since claimed that ‘ we set a new objective : to make the inner cities places where people would want to live and work and where the private investor would be willing to put his money ’ . |
| 7 | No sane malefactor would want to settle and conduct his predatory business in territory controlled by so active and powerful a magnate as Robert Beaumont , earl of Leicester . |
| 8 | I bet their gigs are quite fun too although why anyone would want to sit and watch a video of one made by a stoned roadie is anyone 's guess . |
| 9 | Erm and I would I would want to try and do some er organize some press coverage at that time for the losers as well as for the winner so that a a and one of the things when we select the participants , er the entrants , er we will not have them all coming from the same school or from the same area , even if the five best entrants all do come from the same school . |
| 10 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 11 | After just a minute or so , especially if we were handling metal , we would need to stop and huff on to frozen fingers , standing around with pained expressions while circulation returned . |
| 12 | Yet again , it was a falsehood which she would need to explain and correct . |
| 13 | As he intended to behave extraordinarily well , she would grow to like and respect him ( he was n't entirely sure she did at the moment ) . |
| 14 | Late at night , when he had drunk quantities of red wine to relax , Modi would begin to hum and sing , badly out of tune , Italian and Hebrew melodies , obviously still hankering for his home . |
| 15 | They would begin to know that putting a little eighth note right before the next bar meant anticipation and that made things easier because , if you have a half hour lesson and they want to learn something by Iron Maiden , and you want to show them a dorian mode in three octaves and they 've got to show you their chords in four or five positions , you 've got to work fast ! |
| 16 | Er we would like to see that improved , indeed part of the proposals for er these schemes before us today , we have taken the opportunity for Killinghall of extending that original close in bypass to bypass sections indeed some of the poorest sections of the A sixty one , to the north of Killinghall where we have a very bad accident record , those will be bypassed by the continuation of this scheme north of Killinghall . |
| 17 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
| 18 | If you have influence over me , I may try to predict what signals you would like to see or hear , and consciously send them to you . |
| 19 | Choose the operas you would like to see and use the booking form to book tickets for as many operas as you like . |
| 20 | Please inform the office before 16th April if you would like to attend and enclose a Stamped and Addressed Envelope for a map and travel directions . |
| 21 | ‘ Gods always behave like the people who make them , ’ she writes , opening the chapter on ‘ that boisterous god , Guedé ’ who ‘ does and says the things that the peasants would like to do and say ’ . |
| 22 | It 's not the sort of place I would like to live and have |
| 23 | I would like to guide and work in New Zealand or Canada . |
| 24 | A small but increasing number of commentators would like to stop or turn back the clock and , in the absence of hard data , the debate has been perhaps more about political models of social care than about what works in practice . |
| 25 | Syl was away all day with our host , shooting something , and I was too shy to say I was tired and would like to go and sleep in my room . |
| 26 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 27 | Perhaps you would like to go and do your own thing . |
| 28 | Patrick you know where I would like to go and look at this thing we have |
| 29 | In the meantime , I am sure if Millie here would like to go and see my cousin and discuss the whole situation , my husband would be delighted to provide escort . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , I would like to go and see her . |