Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 2 | Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone . |
| 3 | Hence a hereditary mechanism which transmitted them would result in continued degeneration . |
| 4 | There is a mistaken notion that if the five declared nuclear powers ( America , the Soviet Union , Britain , France and China ) gave up testing weapons , other countries now trying to acquire them would stop . |
| 5 | The community church started in a home and to wear them would have been distinctly odd . |
| 6 | Well they 're some of the best in the land , greyhound punters , I mean they 'll come they like their greyhound racing , real erm diehard people and erm they 'll come in any weather , I mean , the other Thursday when we really had a load of snow down , I mean no-one would come , you would n't even get off your couch for that , but erm we still had three hundred people attend which was erm even though as I say , we lost money on the erm meeting . |
| 7 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 8 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 9 | ‘ Gentle , indeed ! ’ she said ‘ And if I were as gentle in the market as I have been for him at home , how does he think I would manage ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think I would benefit . |
| 11 | I do n't think I would 've been married fifty eight years . |
| 12 | erm I , I erm , I am actually dead against this for various reasons , and I do n't think I would bring up all the reasons that I am , because some of them are not absolutely purely planning reasons , which should n't be aired at this meeting , but I do feel that the provision there for thirty six properties will create a traffic hazard , and access problems , which , which I feel will support this Council at the , the traffic authority after having done a sufficiently detailed survey , I think was the problem , was n't it ? |
| 13 | They are but not as I saw things at the time — I did n't think I would marry . |
| 14 | I am unemployed , but even if I was working I do n't think I would lay out all the expense to travel to London . |
| 15 | I am unemployed , but even if I was working I do n't think I would lay out all the expense to travel to London . |
| 16 | I did n't think I would confess . |
| 17 | However , I do n't think I would stop playing my Gibson ES175 to play that all the time . |
| 18 | So I put very little energy into my criminal case partly because I did n't think I would go to prison , and certainly not for more than a month or two . |
| 19 | I 've I would n't I do n't think I would go out if somebody said , Would you come and sing er at such and such a thing . |
| 20 | I I do n't think I would go . |
| 21 | Yes , I wanted to do a production with Balanchine , but it never happened , and now there is no one I can think I would want to do it with . |
| 22 | I am really glad of it ; I do n't think I would want them to be there , just in case I lost . |
| 23 | Did n't you think I would want to know ? |
| 24 | Now I 've used it elsewhere in the garden and I 've never really had any problem with it except it is inclined to make the water very alkaline because the chippings that are quite often used on a flat roof and they 've got a very high P H and therefore you 've got to be aware that the water that comes off is not likely to be soft it 's more likely to be fair fairly hard but for reasonably tough plants I do n't think I would waste it , especially in times of water shortage . |
| 25 | Did you think I would sit here and wait for you to kill me . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , no dear , I do n't think I would mistake you for a stook of corn . |
| 27 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 28 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 29 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 30 | If I had something important to say on television I do n't think I would choose a Sunday afternoon . |