Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I would want is for you to make the journey into the burning , and then come back and report . |
| 2 | What I would like is for us to be able to poke about a bit ; see if there are any angles in the Livesey case that might lead back to this girl . |
| 3 | What I would like is for all the Councillors to look at this , to advise me which other seats they think are indeed the responsibility of and then I 'll go back and go to battle but er I 'd like everybody 's views on which ones they believe they are so that I can do it firmly . |
| 4 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 5 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 6 | ‘ Had I done so , trust me , I would have been at my home that particular Friday to honour that promise . ’ |
| 7 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 8 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 9 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 10 | otherwise I would have been on two fifty . |
| 11 | ‘ But I would have been through here sooner or later anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Bishop said : ‘ It really was panic stations , but luckily they delayed the plane for half an hour otherwise I would have been in real trouble . ’ |
| 14 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 15 | I would have been in there , you know . |
| 16 | I wondered what I would have been like if Lili had been my mother , but it was impossible to imagine Lili in the depths of maternity . |
| 17 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 18 | He never had a chance of getting the money , which would have been between 10 and 12 times the amount in circulation in the UK at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 20 | With hindsight , it is not difficult to imagine alternative uses for this fine estate which would have been of lasting benefit to the Association . |
| 21 | Okay which would have been on the front of your paper . |
| 22 | Instead it 's A two which would have been at nine o'clock and |
| 23 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've told me nothing which would have been worth Edwin Garland taking the trouble to put into a letter and leave it with his lawyer . |
| 25 | Spears and axes have utilitarian forms , the manufacture of which would have been within the abilities of anyone with basic smithing experience ; both have sockets for handles/shafts which would have been created by beating the iron around a former . |
| 26 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 27 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 28 | She would have been at his mercy and she did n't suppose he had any such thing . |
| 29 | ‘ She would have been about your age , if she had lived . ’ |
| 30 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |