Example sentences of "would [vb infin] if we " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'd prefer if we could decide today .
2 And I do n't think we 'd quarrel if we knew each other better . ’
3 Me an ’ Gerry 'd build up the kitchen fire and we 'd sit there and talk about what we 'd do if we won the Irish Sweepstake .
4 ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League .
5 The big welcome home we 'd get if we came over here .
6 Imagine the physical feeling we would experience if we were high up a ladder and began to feel it slipping , or if we had a ‘ near miss ’ in a car .
7 ‘ We 've both been alone for such a long time I do n't honestly know whether our marriage would survive if we were together every day . ’
8 Sympathy involves ‘ feeling sorry ’ for the other person — or perhaps , it involves our imagining how we would feel if we were experiencing what is happening to him .
9 I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else .
10 And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me .
11 well for god 's sake , I mean I often wonder about people who make noise like this how they would feel if we did do the same , but I still say because we 've done our polystyrene insulation she ca n't hear us , it 's worked in the reverse ai n't it ?
12 And I wonder , if our world would improve if we did that .
13 I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed .
14 why consumers pay er in the European Community , it 's because we paying them two or three times more for our food than we would do if we purchased it on the world market erm .
15 They said : ‘ The last thing we would do if we suspected drugs were being imported would be to tell the agent or importer because they may be in touch with someone at the point of origin .
16 I personally doubt whether any clear evolutionary picture would emerge if we were to base ourselves simply on Formen .
17 I might might check them out to see if they would mind if we did something later on in the week .
18 Yes , there may be some waste in the Health Service , but I would suggest if we are to look for savings then start at the top .
19 ‘ My prime concern was to get an overview of the main environmental concerns we would face if we set up operations in the area , ’ he explained .
20 On the afternoon of the second day , we put one of the Harris 's hawks on a creance , as we would have if we had been training it , and tried a spot of flying .
21 We , we would have if we did n't do it , because the applicant quite rightly said , what , he said was gon na do it without us
22 Twelve times integral of X squared D X well if we 'd have started off with X squared we 'd could have we would have if we 've started off with X cubed we would have finished up with three X cubed
23 Yeah , three-fifty it 's erm it 's more than we would have if we were n't playing .
24 We would die if we tried to break free of I he spell — or if we did not , she would come and kill us . ’
25 The experiments are of the ‘ what if ’ variety , i.e. they ask ‘ what would happen if we did this ? ’ , and are not therefore based on hypothetico-deductive logic .
26 I know that Eric was interested in seeing a panzer division on the move and being so close to the enemy but I could see him getting paler and paler , probably at the thought of what would happen if we were stopped .
27 Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield .
28 Displaying one 's car tax disc where we do seems sensible , but what would happen if we chose to put it somewhere equally prominent ?
29 What would happen if we all parked where we pleased just because we were too lazy to park properly ?
30 What would happen if we were to invite a policeman to come and address this group .
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