Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would prefer to call it the . |
| 2 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 3 | I wanted to give her time to think over what harm it would do to tell me the truth . |
| 4 | They would like to call it the ‘ Welsh Open ’ if that title has not been used before . |
| 5 | On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so . |
| 6 | I , on behalf of all her other fans around the world , would like to wish her the best of luck for 1992 . |
| 7 | We would like to tell you the procedures we will follow in the unlikely event of such a fire giving off toxic fumes . |
| 8 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 9 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 10 | ‘ I would have recognized you the moment I saw you , ’ Graham said . |
| 11 | Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ That would appear to be the case because , other things being equal , we would have to give her the job back . ’ |
| 13 | That would have lost them the election , even supposing that such an announcement would not also have alienated any working class Labour supporters . |
| 14 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
| 15 | She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness . |
| 16 | Even without the simple affirmation his face would have given her the answer ; he looked pale and drawn , as if he had slept even less than she had . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’ |
| 18 | At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again . |
| 19 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 20 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 21 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 22 | ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’ |
| 23 | My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw . |
| 24 | If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company . |
| 25 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 26 | The former county boroughs had preferred the unitary approach which would have made them the core of enlarged areas , but when a two-tier system was adopted it was obviously preferable from their point of view to obtain metropolitan district status and thus retain as many services as possible . |
| 27 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 28 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 29 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 30 | But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly . |