Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 If you if you would please Trevor .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 I pointed out that by slackening our programme efforts we would simply court mediocrity .
9 The puppets clung together as if they would never part .
10 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 ,
11 From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires .
12 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 .
13 ‘ At table he would just glower at his food and refuse to talk .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
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