Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd want to be sure the items had been reported stolen and the person who owns this suitcase for example , would need to know what was written on the other side . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said . |
| 3 | but you 'd want to be able to know that you can I do n't know , I mean , I , I think , with , with the place I am now I just do n't know what to make of it really |
| 4 | ‘ You 'd prefer to be villainous ? ’ |
| 5 | Naturally , you 'd prefer to be alive . |
| 6 | I 'd prefer to be alone while I 'm finding my way about . |
| 7 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
| 8 | She 'd need to be careful . |
| 9 | You 'd like to be capable of violence … |
| 10 | But she 'd like to be nearer eight stone . |
| 11 | Somebody fast asleep in bed there , that 's just what I 'd like to be right this minute . |
| 12 | I thought you 'd like to be certain . ’ |
| 13 | Also I 'd like to be taller and be able to afford to spend more money on clothes that would ‘ express my personality ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd like to be rich , then ? ’ |
| 15 | When I look at a picture of a naked man , I can think like Richard Dyer : ‘ I 'd like to feel that man and I 'd like to be that man . ’ |
| 16 | I know what I think Miss Green 's up to but I 'd like to be sure . ’ |
| 17 | Miranda said , ‘ Firstly , I 'd like to be sure that a nursing home is the best place for her , rather than a hospital . |
| 18 | " You 'll excuse me , sir , I know , but I 'd like to be sure exactly who I 'm talking to . |
| 19 | I 'd like to be sure there 's no one there whom you recognise from the past . |
| 20 | I could choose not to do Alfie , but I would n't I 'd never refuse to do Alfie , I 'd like to be fifty years younger so I could play Alfie for another fifty years . |
| 21 | I want to ask Miss Everdene if she 'd like to be married . ’ |
| 22 | But I 'd like to be involved in creating beautiful things . |
| 23 | I always thought I 'd like to be stuck there for a dirty weekend . ’ |
| 24 | She 'd like to be optimistic . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to say yes I do , but I left so long ago . |
| 26 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 27 | However we choose to define multiple orgasm , there are a lot of us who 'd like to be able to do it . |
| 28 | So of course I said how much I 'd like to be able to play my guitar like a saxophone , and he said , ‘ Yeah — and vice versa . ’ |
| 29 | They should encourage the client to commit him/herself to something specific , i.e. , ‘ I 'd like to stop having panic attacks ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to be able to catch the train up to London ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to understand and cope more effectively with my anxiety symptoms ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to be more relaxed giving presentations at work ’ . |
| 30 | I 'd like to be able to overcome that feeling that it was a problem to everybody else . |