Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , what I would prefer to do is to er listen to the amendment put forward by the as if that were an amendment to the adoption minute since there 's nothing to be adopted at the moment , erm I will then speak on that amendment , well I would probably speak against it erm at that point er there could be a vote on that amendment line by line . |
| 2 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 3 | The last thing I would have wanted was for you to become emotionally involved with me . ’ |
| 4 | The officials in charge of it still can not find out exactly how much some of the firms they would like to sell are worth — or indeed , says one , how many firms the state actually owns . |
| 5 | Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status . |