Example sentences of "[pron] would [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am very fond of my ex-editor , but on the whole I would sooner Bill got his pleasure from watching Fred Couples play golf than from reading open-razor letters to the Guardian . |
| 2 | I would rather musicians took the latter course — and so , I bet , would you . |
| 3 | ‘ I would rather Germany played the proper Scottish team but I want to keep a sense of proportion . |
| 4 | All the other main opposition parties except the conservative Popular Christian Party ( PPC ) boycotted the elections , arguing that the CCD would be an insubstantial body which would merely rubber-stamp presidential decisions . |
| 5 | But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders . |
| 6 | His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions . |
| 7 | The first of these periods ( from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century ) usually involved confrontations between stone-throwing strikers and armed troops , who would sometimes resort to gunfire to restore order . |
| 8 | If you if you would please Trevor . |
| 9 | decorative mirror , with or without a frame , is the type you would normally hand on a bedroom or living room wall , or perhaps over a mantlepiece to reflect the room . |
| 10 | Erm for instance , you go to one meeting and erm you would just sort of , mind you I think probably you may not agree , young people perhaps think this is the best way . |
| 11 | Or you might have become part of a large co-operative farm , where you would virtually farm as you were told in every facet by those in charge . |
| 12 | I pointed out that by slackening our programme efforts we would simply court mediocrity . |
| 13 | Of course , if everyone knew their partners inside out , there 's a good chance no-one would ever plight their troth . |
| 14 | The puppets clung together as if they would never part . |
| 15 | Erm , there 's not a word that 's suitable to use actually in this case because we find that they would actually impact upon the service in a serious manner and therefore we do n't , |
| 16 | From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires . |
| 17 | He would generally lunch in one of the clubs to which he belonged ( by the end of his life , he was a member of the Athenaeum , the Garrick , and the Oxford and Cambridge ) although there were occasions when he would take guests to his favourite restaurant , L'Etoile , in Charlotte Street . |
| 18 | ‘ At table he would just glower at his food and refuse to talk . |
| 19 | He would certainly hand Oliver over to the police ; he had said he would tell the police about Alice and this was much , much worse . |
| 20 | Collectivism would eventually lead to totalitarianism — fascism and communism are collectivist ideologies — but it would also surface in the bureaucratic thinking of Western governments and multinational corporations . |
| 21 | She would never mock it , he was certain of that , and he could not believe that she would be shocked , because she was far too experienced and sensible to waste energy on such a useless emotion ; but it would probably distress her , and she had enough distress to absorb without his adding to it . |
| 22 | For a brief moment it seemed that the rain still hesitated , that it would only patter dispiritedly on the dust-filled gutters where its drops rolled like quick-silver . |