Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't really want to be like that — he 'd rather like to be a baseball star or a Sumo wrestler . |
| 2 | Sometimes I think I 'd just love to be alone with a nice book to read and a carol service on the wireless ! |
| 3 | I 'd just like to be taller really . |
| 4 | I 'd just like to be able to repay her generosity . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd just like to be asked , that 's all ! ’ |
| 6 | Langhorne was an impossible , fiercely dangerous dirt track , practically round , full of ruts ; hot and unprotected , but Mario — as he often liked to point out — had n't been born with a silver spoon in his mouth ; he could n't afford the fare to Europe ; meanwhile , while dreaming of his grand prix heroes , he 'd just have to be better than anybody else at what was available . |
| 7 | Well , he 'd just have to be disappointed … |
| 8 | Now most of her contacts were out-of-town businessmen , far more scared of comebacks than she 'd ever have to be . |
| 9 | We 'd always have to be slinging people out . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd still like to be able to call on you . ’ |
| 11 | Even when I stop idolising him , I 'd still like to be able to tell him what pleasure his lovely voice has given me all these Saturday evenings . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd still like to be left to my own company . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ True , ’ said Phoebe , ‘ but I 'd probably get to be a Union Official immediately , owing to the lack of competition in the Bayswater Chapel , and then Graham would have to give me endless paid hours off to attend to Union Business . ’ |
| 14 | What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good . |
| 15 | I 'd really like to be able to speak like you , you know . |
| 16 | I 'd really like to be in there . |
| 17 | Such desires are easily understood and expressed as conscious wishes-'I 'd really like to be closer to my sister' . |
| 18 | It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it . |
| 19 | Good , cos I 'd quite like to be off for |
| 20 | You think you 'd quite like to be with animals would you ? |
| 21 | Tom put his arm on my shoulder and said , with tears in his eyes , ‘ There 's one man I 'd dearly love to be in that stand — my daddy . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd never want to be as big a girl as Benny Hogan . |
| 23 | There are considerable difficulties for them , like promotion — ‘ We 'd never get to be archdeacons , because we are n't priests ’ — but there are also pastoral roles they can fill that a man ca n't . |
| 24 | This would inevitably require European central bankers to work closely together , while the structure of the system would eventually have to be formalised . |
| 25 | The dawg also takes much longer to construct , but would be ideal for a dedicated application on perhaps a PC where memory must be kept to a minimum and the structure would rarely need to be re-built . |
| 26 | The distant race-meeting was exactly the place where Andrew would most wish to be . |
| 27 | The trap is easily avoided by selecting the problem the parents would most like to be rid of . |
| 28 | ‘ At the end of the day , it is as a songwriter that I would most like to be remembered ’ |
| 29 | ‘ At the end of the day , it is as a songwriter that I would most like to be remembered . |
| 30 | If not , Hick 's position would presumably have to be that the many gods of one tradition were equivalent to the one god of another tradition . |