Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have thought that if you were offering something better , people would rush to take it up . ’ |
| 2 | China is negotiating , rather slowly , to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) ; those outsiders who favour binding China into international trading rules are roughly matched by those who would prefer to keep it outside and thus retain their present freedom to retaliate against its exports . |
| 3 | Erm we are saying that we certainly could n't go that far , maybe two hundred thousand but we would want to put it back so you will have an equal there in terms of spending . |
| 4 | But James Bond would 've handled it differently . ’ |
| 5 | I would consider using it only in particular circumstances ; for obvious reasons I will not predict what they might be . |
| 6 | If it comes down to that , I would need to think it over . |
| 7 | Her idea was to stick a piece of Sellotape between your eyebrows for an afternoon to make yourself aware of how often you frowned , so that you would know to do it less . |
| 8 | You assumed I would know to pick it up to like that and I grabbed it like that . |
| 9 | MR ASHDOWN , the Liberal Democrat leader , stressed yesterday that without a commitment to proportional representation in the Queen 's Speech the Liberal Democrats would seek to vote it down and force a second general election . |
| 10 | To regard homosexuality as a social construction and nothing more is , potentially , to put another weapon in the hands of those who would like to see it quite literally erased from the world — if it can be constructed , then it can be deconstructed , so what are all those queers still doing here ? |
| 11 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 12 | He asked me which typeface I would like to set it in . |
| 13 | Fitzormonde stepped away and the bear went back to its meal , shuffling its food into a dirty untidy pile as if it suspected Fitzormonde would like to take it away . |
| 14 | I do n't want a complete shade change but would like to cheer it up for summer . |
| 15 | I was quite glad to have it … sending a copy of my book to be signed , and saying he would like to have it back quickly as at least a dozen people were waiting to borrow it … . |
| 16 | they would like to have it back and so |
| 17 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 18 | In order to give you and Bell time to work on the tape before reporting back to us , I would like to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 19 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , I would like to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 20 | In fact if it was dry down to the band they would near take it in by that time , you with the bands round the middle ? |
| 21 | He accepted this programme , and half knew that Montini would have to carry it through . |
| 22 | Judging by the many Figures covered by the first letter of the alphabet — fifty-eight at the beginning — it can be appreciated that Miller had been justly advised ; such expansion throughout the work would have priced it far outside the purse of the ‘ generality ’ if , indeed , it could have been completed in his lifetime . |
| 23 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 24 | We 'd go barefoot in the fields and play fairies , and horses and keepers : the horse would have to step in as many cow shits as possible and the keeper would have to clean it up from between their toes . |
| 25 | If that agreement is already deeply ailing , the Syrian invasion would have killed it off . |
| 26 | He has a good action and if there had been anything wrong with the ball , he would have swung it too . |
| 27 | As David Trippier from the Department of the Environment said , this is two-and-a-half years ahead of the schedule laid down by the Montreal protocol — and the government would have liked it even faster . |
| 28 | Joe would have liked it better if they 'd been level . |
| 29 | So , at the time , when it was published , most readers would have regarded it as completely up to date in its , in its style and in its presentation . |
| 30 | He would have to sit it out , but he would live . |