Example sentences of "would [verb] [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised they 'd want her to be a double agent , so they 'd have a mole inside American Intelligence . |
| 2 | Oh no I think I 'd want it to be comfortable , but I 'd also want it to look well what I considered to be nice . |
| 3 | I 'd prefer you to be in that snowdrift , ’ he said in biting tones . |
| 4 | He almost made it sound as if this was something that he 'd expect her to be proud of . |
| 5 | Not to her father 's villa — he 'd expect her to be a radiant bride just back from her honeymoon . |
| 6 | True , Cara was more worldly-wise than she was , but then , at twenty-eight , six years older , you 'd expect her to be . |
| 7 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 8 | The eventual winners were the ever-so knowledgeable team from R & D ( well , you 'd expect them to be bright would n't you ? ) |
| 9 | those words were carefully chosen as as I 'm sure sure you 'd expect them to be . |
| 10 | And I 'd expect them to be here . |
| 11 | I 'd expect them to be wasting their time on this foolish nonsense and not me . |
| 12 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 13 | Well the motives are to offer more choice , to provide more competition in the credit card market and a better deal for customers and , to the extent that there are prices changes , we 'd expect them to be beneficial , particularly to those who are buying with cash or debit cards rather than credit cards . |
| 14 | But I would have thought you 'd expect him to be faithful to you for a day or two at least . ’ |
| 15 | Position three , the middle one , is what you 'd expect it to be — both pickups in parallel for that nice , middle-of-the-road tone — and position four is the new sound . |
| 16 | As far as the build quality is concerned , you 'd expect it to be up there with the best of the Japanese instruments , and you 'll be pleased to know that Jackson have not compromised their reputation here at all ; there 's nothing in the slightest ‘ second rate ’ about the Infinity . |
| 17 | Now that would be the minimum vale , but what we mean by that is the th maximum negative correlation cos if there was not correlation you 'd expect it to be zero . |
| 18 | In the circumstances it 's in very good condition ; we 'd expect it to be far worse than this but the more we uncover the better it gets . |
| 19 | Mine , mine was mine was erm if you 've got screw contacts on it , mine have well to say that these er these switches are so unreliable you 'd expect it to be erm |
| 20 | As soon as you walk through the archway , I mean you 'd expect it to be an open |
| 21 | so you 'd expect it to be up |
| 22 | And as an Eclipse buyer , we 'd expect you to be equally discriminating about the look of your food . |
| 23 | ‘ But if you 'd like me to be rude , I can assure you you 're the last person I wanted to bump into . ’ |
| 24 | John Lee Hooker wo n't be with us forever , however much we 'd like him to be . |
| 25 | It brought me up against the fact that I 'd like him to be better off so I could have more options . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd like him to bear his rightful name , I 'd like him to be able to say which family he comes from , I 'd like him to hold his head up high in any company — but I wo n't be bounced into a sham of a marriage , not even for five minutes . |
| 27 | I 'd like him to be my lover in the afterlife ’ — Historian Jan Morris discussing the subject of her latest work , Lord Fisher , Admiral of the Fleet . |
| 28 | People are very seldom exactly what you 'd like them to be |
| 29 | I 'd like them to be able to walk to school , and that 's what they could do if this school was open . |
| 30 | I 'd like her to be able to see as much as possible , without rushing . ’ |