Example sentences of "i would [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's precisely the problem because erm the definition which I would give to it is necessarily a definition which would preclude er regarding Mao 's party as a Marxist party but then other people would say that my definition was er itself controversial . |
| 2 | In this I would admit to a personal bias toward flexibility and a lateral approach . |
| 3 | Having created my opposition , I had to decide what I would do to them . |
| 4 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 5 | She asked me if I would speak to the police for her . |
| 6 | I thought I would speak to Otto , ask him how best to go about having Jean-Claude 's work assessed for performance . |
| 7 | I am afraid , rather weakly , I said that I would speak to Max . |
| 8 | See and , and , and normally , and I , I do n't know if , if it 's correct with us , but normally I would , I would speak to the client talk to him , you know , about different things , whatever , go into his business and all sorts |
| 9 | There was sense in which , it was n't really in Pilate 's hands , because Jesus had said to him , if I wanted I would speak to my father , he would send ten legions of angels and they would deliver me out of your hands , Pilate , you have no power over me . |
| 10 | I would expect to be consulted as I was . |
| 11 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |
| 12 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
| 13 | I would refer to the winner of ‘ Hands On ’ ( WW/April 91/p.398 ) does this now mean that screwdrivers can now be used for opening tins of paint with raising of eyebrows ? |
| 14 | I would refer to previous discussions and correspondence concerning additional accommodation requirements for Council Tax . |
| 15 | Er I think Michael has made the point er but could I just draw attention the regional erm the strategic and sub-regional policy point that erm I wished to emphasise er and I would refer to the Greater York study w e e of sixty one . |
| 16 | My reply was that I doubted if any such plan had a remote chance of success , and that I would want to be assured of the truthfulness and authenticity of the document he was planning to send me . |
| 17 | Once Crispin arrived , I would want to be out and about with him , so I worked till lunch-time , and was rewarded by reaching the half-way mark , and with a new idea to carry me through the next section of the story . |
| 18 | My child , the parent says in effect , is , or should be , achieving — or aggressive or sophisticated or " nice " — just the things I would want to be . |
| 19 | I know people have written saying that I look like a nun , or could have been a nun , but that 's the last thing I would want to be . |
| 20 | ‘ I would like to , I think — but I 'm afraid I might be like that — I think I would want to be like that . |
| 21 | And certainly if I did become treasurer I would want to , to know something about it cos I do n't really . |
| 22 | has been considerable , Chairman my one concern which has in fact shared by Mrs as Mr referred in , in his letter is erm how long is this experiment should run for erm how long five point seven the first of three months , although the wording is n't , it is in fact half the recommendation , I would want to er agree with Mrs suggest that this be six months , erm because three months particularly in the winter months ca n't , ca n't really be considered a very thorough experimental period . |
| 23 | The only exception I would make to this rule is if there are special guests who actually should be ‘ on-show ’ because they enhance the programme , for whatever reason . |
| 24 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 25 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 26 | If that is the report to which he is referring , when asked how I would react to a Select Committee report I said that it would depend on what it said . |
| 27 | Well I 'd love to , if I get a choice I would loved to brought a brand new one . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you think I would choose to be so ? ’ |
| 29 | You you 'd all it means is you 'd have longer lines of communication to an even worse bureaucracy , and I think if a bureaucracy which can produce this situation of opting out as an alternative is any example to have , I would choose to be away from it . |
| 30 | Yet who would have thought I would talk to myself in this way in these notes ? he wrote . |