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

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1 I would rather have a little shop , a holiday home and be getting married and having kids .
2 Although of course I would rather have a Pissarro .
3 I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him .
4 Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine .
5 Well I did , I took it , I took it out and said , alright when I went and enquired , I said well I would normally have a cheque book now cos I 'm not always in the bank , and I had this slip to say I do n't need one will come automatically he said oh yes , but that breaking down is hopeless , then I should fill it in now and I 'll take it .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 Nowadays , I would probably have a complete reverse opinion and say , ‘ Well done , David ’ , but in those days I honestly did n't care .
8 So if I were you I would just have a word with your insurance company and make sure that everything 's okay but you 're obviously , they must know that you 've got to leave your er fridge-freezer switched on , so you 've got to have your mains electrics on .
9 But I saw no other way out : I did n't know if I would ever have a chance again . ’
10 The doctors told me I would never have a child of my own .
11 I would never have a better diversion , I thought , then it did get better .
12 And one final thought — if I ever come across any Crenicichla species ‘ Xingu III they would fit very well into my tank , with the Uaru , and then I would really have a dream come true !
13 Most of the living accommodation at Low Birk Hatt faces north and I always thought that when I moved I would definitely have a south-facing house .
14 Not only was she exultant at the thought of a holiday in London , but she would also have a week removed from the constant worry of Gareth Davis .
15 As Sheila watched him go , she knew that in spite of the hurtful words he had just spoken she would always have a soft spot for the man .
16 She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state .
17 Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child .
18 She would never have a confrontation but she would get things done her way .
19 Perhaps she would never have a child .
20 You do n't necessarily get a better job with a performance spec than you would simply by specifying that you had more cuts because in er in a slow growing year , if you like , the contractor actually gains because he does n't need to cut so many times to comply with a maximum of a hundred millimetres length , whereas if you 've got an eleven level cut you would actually have a continuous length of grass , much shorter , so it would look smarter .
21 It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million .
22 Erm I found the , the greeting and the appropriate sociability to start with very hesitant but I think that was most probably just nerves on your part Robert , I do n't think it was something that you would usually have a problem with .
23 I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people .
24 It is because the individual animal is the unit of study that this is a cluster sample ; if herds were the unit of study we would simply have a simple random sample of herds .
25 ‘ Then we would probably have a mandatory defence , which we would not duck , and then come back for a third defence against Bruno . ’
26 If we combined we would soon have a flourishing practice .
27 If this advice had been taken , we would now have a Labour government with Liberal Democrat support , and the two parties would jointly be working on reforms to the voting system to ensure that it more accurately represents the will of the people .
28 A Meat and Livestock Commission spokesman summed up this bulldog spirit : ‘ If Gallup got it right , we would now have a Labour government . ’
29 We would then have a pattern of perfectly dovetailing decisions .
30 We would then have a report back in plenary and a time for additional comments .
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