Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] would [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | member of the US Congress whom Martin Chuzzlewit meets on board the steamboat returning from Eden , a chauvinistic windbag celebrated for a speech called ‘ the Pogram Defiance ’ which , Martin is informed by another passenger , ‘ defied the world in general to com-pete with our country upon any hook ; and develop 'd our internal resources for making war upon the universal airth ’ . |
2 | Yeah , if they come up to you with a microphone and say would you like to say a few words for the television programme yourself |
3 | Doubtless many poets envied Duck , for whom the queen had ‘ Enlarg 'd thy Bottle , and enrich 'd thy Beer ’ . |
4 | Well you have to tell a load of lies as he said well it 's a right shambles , nobody would go and see would they ? |
5 | Sir John said on the programme : ‘ They rang us up and said would we go across . |
6 | , but when they asked us to go , you know , I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert would n't speak and came and said would you two like to go , he 's on the committee , you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I 'll put your name down so |
7 | , but when they asked us to go , you know , I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert would n't speak and came and said would you two like to go , he 's on the committee , you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I 'll put your name down so |
8 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
9 | They give you something for that cos I m the B B C asked me once to , they knocked the door and said would I make a note of all the programmes for one week and just put my opinion , it was just four different , you know , |
10 | They pho , phoned last night and said would I collect some stuff from someone in so |
11 | It 's it is a nationwide survey on spoken English erm there 's a somebody approached me today and said would I carry a tape around for a week and record people talking . |
12 | we can go and say would you mind bringing that in . |