Example sentences of "would probably " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two hours Ii managed to get David to sign the papers knowing full well that , after over 12 years of living in those conditions , I would probably want to die myself . |
| 2 | ‘ In another location I would probably have a full dining room every night , but that is only a part of what is important to me . |
| 3 | If David had ever learned of the things Phipps had said to her , he would probably … |
| 4 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 5 | In retrospect , I would probably have saved a little bit more , but there it is — I did manage to save a little bit anyway . |
| 6 | The best thing would probably be just to walk around to keep warm and then to snatch a little rest in a doorway somewhere if need be . |
| 7 | She looked , I do n't know , determined , that would probably be the best way of putting it . |
| 8 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 9 | I reckoned that the Queen would probably have agreed with me — she 'd always come across as a decent sort . |
| 10 | ‘ It would probably be best if I started from square one , ’ the contact opened the proceedings by saying . |
| 11 | They went on to suggest that where complex insider activities are being carried out in a sub-language designed to exclude the uninformed , the best ethnography would probably be carried out by the insider/ethnographer . |
| 12 | Afterwards in the pub someone told me he would probably be sent down . |
| 13 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |
| 14 | It has to be said that there are no easy routes here ; even the 5cs would probably be a 6a anywhere else . |
| 15 | Ah yes , digging up the bowling green would probably mean some explaining , as well . |
| 16 | A more usual setup would probably be to fix the core in a horizontal position , aligned so that one pickup coil responds to the maximum horizontal component of the earth 's field , in which case the other would respond to the variations in declination or angular change in direction . |
| 17 | An established professor of French Literature might nowadays privately believe as much , but would probably think it unprofessional or damaging to argue the case publicly . |
| 18 | The idea of literary sensibility would probably be dismissed by the culturalists of the Left as a piece of mystification , and certainly few of them have shown signs of possessing it , on either side of the Atlantic . |
| 19 | Indeed , such an academic structure might provide a good opportunity for the exercise suggested by Graff , in which students ( many of whom would probably be women ) would consider a feminist anthology of women poets of the past , and discuss how far they are admissible into the existing poetic canon , and what theoretical criteria might govern such admission . |
| 20 | The phantom was initially nameless but the viewer knew that , if he had shouted Class or Guilt after it , it would probably have answered . |
| 21 | However , a full one-point rise would probably trigger another run on sterling and force a one-point base rate rise in the UK . |
| 22 | He repeated the act ( the greenkeeper would probably say it was vandalism ) at the 14th green . |
| 23 | Had a serious run developed on the Bank of China in 1983 , which thankfully it did not , the result would probably have been catastrophic . |
| 24 | While the market might continue softening for psychological and cyclical reasons , its woes would probably not be compounded by fraud-tainted defaults . |
| 25 | But this notion would probably do little to slow the emigration rate even if it were realised . |
| 26 | Diplomats say the referendum would probably violate the constitution . |
| 27 | Mark Raggett , a businessman spearheading the effort , said : ‘ If I was to take some of these materials and technologies back to the Soviet Union , I would probably be breaking the law . ’ |
| 28 | Or , as the characters would probably say , this being a series infatuated with villainous jargon , ‘ You 've bin telling porkies , PC — and in my manor we 're strictly kosher ’ . |
| 29 | He was filmed prancing round the forecourt like a wayward member of a modern dance troupe ; the witnesses in the passing cars would n't just have noticed his approach , they would probably have pulled up to watch , so bizarre and entertaining were his surreptitious motions . |
| 30 | But it would leave the Government exposed to the full force of house-buyers ' fury , with no international excuse for forcing an increase in mortgage rates that would probably have occurred anyway . |