Example sentences of "one would " in BNC.
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| 1 | So no one 'd ever know it was you had 'em all the time . |
| 2 | One 'd have to do the bedrooms , to clean the bedrooms . |
| 3 | And ano and the other one 'd have to do the stairs . |
| 4 | And the other one 'd do the stairs that week . |
| 5 | No one 'd want ‘ em . |
| 6 | ‘ He used to sneak out of college wearing a spare jacket so 's no one 'd know he was missing . |
| 7 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 8 | No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else . |
| 9 | The facilities available for television training differs from school to school ; filming and television work is expensive to organise , and really there is not so much opportunity as one would like to see for students to gain experience in these vital areas . |
| 10 | Theoretically , one would expect the Northern catholic community and the six counties of Ulster to be considered a lost remnant , unredeemed from British rule , and indeed this is by far the most popular interpretation . |
| 11 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 12 | One would thus hope that the treatment of The Tabard would reflect its key role in the area and the importance of its architect . |
| 13 | I staked it and nipped out sideshoots as they appeared , exactly as one would when making a fuchsia into a standard . |
| 14 | Off-stage , no one would have looked at Jamie twice , standard rips in his faded jeans and political tee-shirt . |
| 15 | The books — almost as much a symbol of Jewishness as the Mogen David itself — are by and large well thumbed , though fewer than one would expect . |
| 16 | He was always careful to wash his chiselled visage , of course , but in a year of passion one would think some small scent would have escaped , a tracking odour that would put her senses on alert . |
| 17 | If a movie were to be made of her American tour , one would see pages fly from calendars , clock hands spin and headlines slapped one on top of the next . |
| 18 | Much of this was ‘ own label ’ merchandise of course , but occasionally one would come across a familiar branded item , at about half the price of those at home . |
| 19 | As one would except , pre-existing material got sucked into this new world . |
| 20 | One would not want to suggest that the academics who contribute to the New Accents series ( or who write similar texts ) can not read French with ease . |
| 21 | One would have thought that Marxism and Lacanism would inhabit wholly disparate worlds of thought ; the former is rationalistic and teleological , whereas for Lacan , as Bowie says , ‘ arguments directed towards a terminus are falsehoods ’ . |
| 22 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 23 | Similarly , one would like to see a state of affairs in which many more people read and enjoyed poetry than had taken a degree in it . |
| 24 | The Michelin guide to Perigord will reveal a castle either preserved or in ruins at each of these places , though one would need to go off the map to Mareuil-sur-Belle , as well as Vieux-Mareuil , to identify all the three donjons which Pound speaks of in that vicinity . |
| 25 | How one would like that to be true ! |
| 26 | Perhaps no one would deny this ; but as each generation of students arrives more defiantly or hopelessly monoglot , as a whole new discipline ( called ‘ Comparative Literature ’ ) has come into being to cater for those exceptional persons who can read more languages than one , the need for a classroom manual to redress this state of affairs becomes ever more urgent . |
| 27 | ‘ We must admit that a Syrian withdrawal could provoke many dangers for which no one would want to take responsibility . |
| 28 | It is , cynics might say , exactly the conclusion one would expect from scientists in the pay of the CEGB . |
| 29 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 30 | No one would take responsibility for off-loading it , and Captain Pintar and his Yugoslav crew would not fly with it . |