Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If her car had broken down your Dad or me would have passed it on the road . ’ |
| 2 | Do you know that there 's men running clubs up there who would murder somebody like you or me would have a cup of tea ? |
| 3 | If it is only — or mainly — accommodation problems which stop you repeating the year , Grandad & I would like you to know that you are welcome to live here & go to Oban High School . |
| 4 | He lay in bed , hoping the phone would go away or someone would answer it . |
| 5 | He stood , hearing the picks ring on the rock and watching the spoil fly from three hundred shovels , and he would realize that perhaps , even at that very moment , a papermaker in some small East End papermill was drying the very sheet on which Chambers or someone would write the final , damning words , ‘ insufficient funds . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that , well , I thought Sacco or someone would be up here . ’ |
| 7 | My destination was Victoria station where I would try and catch a boat-train to France . |
| 8 | The brake and clutch are too close together for my modest size sevens , and there 's a huge foot-rest where I would normally expect a clutch pedal . |
| 9 | I suffered agonies of suspense in silence , for I never knew when or where I would see you again , or whether she would be with you . |
| 10 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 11 | My dream is to be a housewife , perhaps in France or the Canary Islands , where I would n't have to think of work or money and could go on excursions to supermarkets . |
| 12 | ‘ They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job , being from the City , but I have n't found an instance where I would want to get rid of anyone . ’ |
| 13 | The next year , 1965 , he had his choice of three F1 teams competing for his services and chose BRM : as he has said , he wanted to be in a team ‘ where they would n't rush me , a team where I would n't be battling for my place every time I took the grid , a team where I could learn from a man like Graham Hill ’ . |
| 14 | I would enjoy a job where I would have to talk , persuade or advise people |
| 15 | We walked to the boy 's mother 's house where I would stay while we worked on the bride house . |
| 16 | A major installation of Beuys , ‘ Arena ( where I would have got if I had been intelligent ) ’ , created in 1970–72 ( see The Art Newspaper No.16 , March 1992 , p.6 ) , remains on exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts until mid-April , while the MoMA exhibition travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles ( 30 May-15 August ) , the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 10 October-2 January 1994 ) and the Art Institute of Chicago ( 15 February-25 April 1994 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was teaching , but one of the reason things worked out so well for me was that I did n't have to worry how I would eat or where I would sleep . |
| 19 | I think they go for more sorts of jobs , it 's difficult to list them , but a lot are going into computing and electronics today , but we have people — we had one student who 's gone into accountancy , Royal Navy , weapons research , gas board , chemical side as opposed to physical side , video discs , hospital physics , where I would have thought the chemical aspects would be of use to them as well as the physics . |
| 20 | It struck me as I fumblingly dialled the number that it would be better to go out to a kiosk , where I would be more sure of privacy , but having come to this decision I only wanted to hurry , hurry — every minute 's delay seemed dangerous . |
| 21 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 22 | That 's the reason I have brought you to this quiet garden , not to some tavern where I would drink myself senseless . |
| 23 | Head of Department : ‘ In 1976 I had a clear idea where I would like to be going : |
| 24 | Ahead I could see the Bomb Circle , where I would stop or turn . |
| 25 | Because it was before just before we moved the offices but it 's kicking around somewhere in an envelope with my name on the front of it but where I would n't know . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not even going to ask how many phone calls you made to find where I would be staying — ’ |
| 27 | I mean even today he 'd made a mistake on that thing and you spotted it where I would n't have done . |
| 28 | where I would headlong into the thing . |
| 29 | The temptation to return safely back up where I 'd come from was enormous . |
| 30 | Actually , I 'm in a situation now where I 'd love to be celibate … but I really love sex . |