Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could go back to work , she supposed , only if she did that everyone would want to know why . |
| 2 | Er , of course er , Yeltsin does sometimes take own measures and that 's because the situation genuinely is very dangerous er and er , I think that everyone would agree that really . |
| 3 | And if either of these things happened to her then Odette and Liam would be separated and taken away to the work-house , Odette with her heart in pieces and her nerves in tatters , Liam retreating so far into that anxious silence of his that nothing would ever bring him out again . |
| 4 | Although , after her comprehensive training for C 's circus , it was possible nothing would surprise her . |
| 5 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 6 | She 's elderly and , quite frankly , so bad-tempered I would n't leave her a cat . |
| 7 | " You 're damn " right I would n't . " |
| 8 | It 's Right I would . |
| 9 | The engine has done a genuine 25,000 miles so if possible I would like to make use of it . |
| 10 | The first questions that you brought up was , if possible I would be very grateful to you for a brief description of the two raids to Gdynia Pole ninth of October in Colesfield tenth of October nineteen forty three . |
| 11 | He says Well you 're quite right n y I Cos I did n't think we You know I 'd said to the man already it 's quite possible I would n't be able to really take the stuff out of store for him . |
| 12 | and er , it was gone eleven I would of thought , anyway he stopped and I slept like a log , got up at twenty past six , but erm , it 's a strange thing because one of those came last evening and it parked outside George 's , now I said yesterday , when Alan goes to work , it 's not long after six normally to go up to London and that |
| 13 | If I wanted to make it rich I 'd be Private Eye 's libel lawyer . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm so sorry I would n't listen to you , ’ she said at last . |
| 15 | Sorry I 'd like the |
| 16 | The least I would expect would be an immediate invitation from the Prime Minister , come and see me , because if it was happening on the streets of any city in Britain and the MP stood up and said what I 've said I think he would be in Downing Street within the night . |
| 17 | Can I say definite I 'd be quite happy to start within the next four weeks . |
| 18 | To save even the meanest man or woman alive I 'd get rid of the whole Sistine Chapel ! |
| 19 | If he were alive I 'd tell him I think it 's unfair . |
| 20 | If it were alive I 'd strangle it ! ’ |
| 21 | About half past eight I would feed my horse and then have my breakfast . |
| 22 | Ninety three A eight I would like to ask a question Mr Mayor . |
| 23 | It was one of the reasons why I was anxious to learn English at school : so that I could tell her in her own language how grateful I would always be . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't tell you how grateful I 'd be . ’ |
| 25 | Sandy , at three in the morning , watching Boy : ‘ If I was built like that I would n't wait until three o'clock to take my shirt off . ’ |
| 26 | After that I would shower them away , and peering over my side — all in my mind — would watch them being swept down a hillside in a cleansing torrent of water . |
| 27 | So always after that I would make sure I had a job to do as far away as possible from the scene , because it upset me a lot . |
| 28 | If it 's like promoting the idea of killing cops as being a good thing , if this band wanted to do a song like that I would n't want to be in the band . ’ |
| 29 | So after that I would never let him out to play , but then a social worker came to complain that I was keeping him in and away from other children . " |
| 30 | The the sort of thing that that I would be if I were in running your function Terry , would be to say , look at this package that we 've developed for P T E stations . |