Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have a " in BNC.

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1 I thought I would have a go at senior rugby for a season , then pack it in .
2 And I would have a great deal of sympathy with that view , quite frankly .
3 I figured that rather than have a tape and a black and white photo , I would have a CD that would be in colour .
4 Thessy and I would have a chance to strengthen the rigging during our two-week trial period with the twins , but some jobs simply could not be done at sea .
5 I would have a drink , and another .
6 I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended .
7 I was in two minds about closing the door , but decided that it would be safer to do so ; if anyone came through it unexpectedly I would have a split second to look lost and nonchalant .
8 Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist .
9 He himself had gone to University College , Oxford , so he thought I should apply there , because I would have a greater chance of getting in .
10 I imagined I would have a lot of spare time , but my diary is always full .
11 I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape .
12 And I do n't think if you 've got it out of the Guilds and say now we 've got to have so much for the rent this week I do n't think I would have a Guild very long , because they can go round the corner .
13 I would have a go . "
14 All I needed was fuel , and I would have a fire .
15 Sometimes I would have a gull and a crow but , whether they were the same species or not , they quickly found out they could n't fly properly — though the twine was long enough in theory — and ended up ( after a few hilariously clumsy aerobatics ) fighting .
16 I thought that I would have a go at getting a pilot 's course , which I did — and was soon sharply put in my place .
17 I would have a word with Anne jus , just from
18 And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work .
19 I thought that when they took my trousers off I would have a zip mark on the old fellow .
20 Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector .
21 their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win
22 Because because it , I would have a dictatorship on that !
23 I 'm very impressed indeed by the Oxford Preservation Trust study and I would have a
24 I would have a carrot and stick approach .
25 She would have a good chance of sneaking out unnoticed by then .
26 ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’
27 But , once upstairs , she knew she would have a job to get out again , especially if her father knew her destination .
28 She would have a new dress for Sundays , which next year became an afternoon dress , and the next was worn in the mornings for doing her housework .
29 She would have a new coat for winter once in about three years , and the same for summer , with a suit for ‘ in between weather , ’ ( spring and autumn ) , so there was only one of these major expenses each year .
30 She waited for Jean , his girlfriend , to go to the Ladies , and then pounced , flirting madly and manoeuvring him into bartering with her that he would buy two whole strips if she would have a dance with him .
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