Example sentences of "'d almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd almost think she did it on purpose . |
| 2 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 3 | This chapter is a brief distillation of a few of the themes in that book , but really I 'd almost rather you stopped reading now and switched to The Extended Phenotype ! |
| 4 | ‘ You 'd almost have enough to buy some more drinks . ’ |
| 5 | She knew herself well enough to know that if he challenged her account in the latter mode she 'd almost certainly lose her temper with him , and then the atmosphere between them , which had been ( with the exception of his overtures ) so easy and undemanding , would be spoiled . |
| 6 | I 'd almost always be on my own . |
| 7 | A control freak might be interesting to play around with , he was thinking , especially in his weakened condition — get her so far along , and then she 'd almost certainly want to do all the work . |
| 8 | ‘ If we were n't tied to this bit of the country , I 'd almost think about chucking it all in and heading off somewhere different — Canada , or Australia , or South Africa . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If it was n't all so dangerous , I 'd almost be finding it interesting , you know . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If we 're chatting again in ten years ' time , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd almost certainly be in this cabin , but we might need some new cushions by then . ’ |
| 11 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 12 | Suppose he went in somewhere above Teddington — you 'd almost certainly find traces of fresh water in the clothes . |
| 13 | We 'd almost do better cadging a lift off a couple of tortoises . ’ |
| 14 | If you stand over Wembley Stadium and pour ice cream into it we 'd almost fill it in a year . |
| 15 | The car was on fire , but they 'd almost put it out when their fire extinguisher ran out . |
| 16 | But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence . |
| 17 | with someone who 's nice , put it that way , I 'd almost definitely try , I 'd get the , say that they could have the giro today |