Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not afraid of falling off , look you ; I love riding , ’ cried Deborah indignantly , ‘ and I 'd rather go home on horseback than by car . |
| 2 | If I must vegetate , I 'd rather do so at home , in spite of the undoubtedly superior ménage here . |
| 3 | We 'd just sit there in silence . |
| 4 | If I only took the big parts and none of this TV crap I 'd just go away to film , and then when I was around I 'd really be around . |
| 5 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed , ‘ but I thought I 'd just say so in case you got the wrong idea . ’ |
| 6 | So then this fellow comes to the phone , obviously his missus had entered it and he did n't have a bloody clue that she 'd gone in for it and he 'd just come home from work and er Annika Rice there , saying oh where is she ? |
| 7 | ‘ I would rather stay here with father and you , ’ said Tess , looking out of the window . |
| 8 | However , as with the proposed Legco referendum , the vote would only go ahead after approval by the Legco , the chief executive and the NPC standing committee . |
| 9 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 10 | At the conclusion of the talks , Cheney announced that the second phase of the US troop withdrawal plan to 1995 , involving 6,000 troops , would not go ahead in view of " the most serious threat " posed by North Korea . |
| 11 | Normally Charles and Diana would not sit together at state banquets , but their separation last night took on a new poignancy following the official announcement earlier this week that they have split . |
| 12 | You would not think so from January 's media furore on British Telecom 's new identity . |
| 13 | Although Moi claimed that his decision to end single party rule was not due to external pressure , on Dec. 1 a statement from the United States embassy in Nairobi had made it clear that Kenya would not benefit fully from US aid unless the government curbed corruption and liberalized the political system . |
| 14 | It may well have been fun while it lasted , but we might guess by now that the Titfords would not stay long in Spa Fields , any more than they had anywhere else . |
| 15 | In the first place it could be argued that a democratic government would not impose unreasonably on minorities ; this exposed the party to Liberal charges that they were indifferent to the Irish Nationalists , but it also exposed the weakness of the government 's position , as Law explained to the Commons in January 1913 : |
| 16 | Of course , it would not get there without help . |
| 17 | This had to be some wonderful dream , because Felipe de Santis would not come here to England and seek her out . |
| 18 | But she would not crawl home for comfort , defeated . |
| 19 | After obtaining first the engaged tone and then the unobtainable tone — that would not happen now after privatisation — the caller was finally connected to an answerphone which said : ‘ This is Tim and Bridie Wallis 's number . |
| 20 | While C2 Certificate holders would normally proceed directly into employment , there should , however , be opportunities for some students to acquire credits allowing them eventually to obtain a C1 Certificate . |
| 21 | She felt now that her future was settled : her uncle would soon go away to sea ; Tristram would be freer to be seen in her company and perhaps , if her prayers were answered , they would be able to persuade Aunt Ann to let them be married . |
| 22 | She pointed out that the plaster would soon fall away without paint . |
| 23 | It would soon become so in parts of the northwest region of Xinjiang where long-suppressed grievances of the Uighur Muslim majority have begun to break out . ) |
| 24 | Only he was too dirty for a satyr , who would probably wash frequently in mountain streams . |
| 25 | If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life . |
| 26 | It is too early to know of any false negatives but these would probably arise only by laboratory or administrative error . |
| 27 | He would n't stay long in Granard . |
| 28 | She would n't leave early in case she missed anything . |
| 29 | John said it would n't cost much in petrol as Pat McClusky , an excellent comic , was driving a minibus over with eight of John 's other acts and I could go with them . |
| 30 | I would n't do it now because I , ever since that , that woman was on the train was stabbed and thrown out , I would n't go alone on holidays now but in those days , well maybe I was a lot , course I was younger then but you never heard of such things |