Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | If you think that individual people have a big role in history , like and Woodrow Wilson , I doubt if he did , I mean everybody would admit that these were important figures obviously , but the question is , how important were they , compared with social , political and economic factors , possibly beyond their control ? |
2 | Well they 're some of the best in the land , greyhound punters , I mean they 'll come they like their greyhound racing , real erm diehard people and erm they 'll come in any weather , I mean , the other Thursday when we really had a load of snow down , I mean no-one would come , you would n't even get off your couch for that , but erm we still had three hundred people attend which was erm even though as I say , we lost money on the erm meeting . |
3 | I think if , if they adopted a policy of erm of struggle last time , I mean they would get to land reform indirectly but I do n't think you can erm initiate it from the Party as such like because that causes all sorts of problems through definitions and things like that but |
4 | erm now what then is the position what is the nature of the criticism or the claims being made by the group of palaeontologists whom I 'm going to refer to , for reasons that will become apparent , as the punctuations — because I mean they would call themselves punctuations . |
5 | I mean we would need fifty people |
6 | It did hold us up I mean we would have been down there a lot quicker if we had n't had |
7 | tourism in West Sussex I mean what would happen to that is just one example er on a broader level , the County Council is working with the European regions to promote West Sussex in Europe and what would happen to that , the only conclusion we could draw is that these policies would crumble and to er seriously affect West Sussex and finally I come back to the point that , that I will keep making , if I ever get the opportunity , namely the cost of this exercise . |
8 | I mean what would happened train to London . |
9 | I mean what would have happened to us kids if if she 'd have been like him ? |
10 | Or I mean I think he 's , she 's bitten him before , if he had any sense he 'd leave them at the gate or something , I mean somebody would go for them . |
11 | then you know I 'm not sure either whether of course I mean one would hope that erm the institute would have certain requirements about the erm practical period that you |
12 | I mean one would hope you got some wherever you went you know , |
13 | Erm I suppose , I mean it would depend on where you were going back to , to where you which , which region then because I mean there was such a difference in in what the villages were going to erm accept . |
14 | And I mean I think that if it was spread more I mean if if if people locally gave more to bereaved in their own areas , I mean it would go down a lot more good there . |
15 | Yes , I mean it would include most of that . |
16 | I mean it would indicate that our budgets five thousand more than we really need on other years . |
17 | I mean it would have been a hell of a lot of |
18 | I mean it would have to happen to me , yeah . |
19 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
20 | I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated . |
21 | So presumably he 's actually believing these ideas I mean I would 've thought he , he if he came back and said there 's tension , there 's , you know it was , between the two classes and we go in and we direct them in a certain way , put the right ideas in their mind , that we can harness the revolution . |
22 | I mean I would do you er have ? |
23 | I mean I would make sure I 'm there , cos I 'm disgusted with the pavements in Southwell . |
24 | I mean I would have to say that that , that turn by the Chinese Communist Party meant that it was a turn away from the idea that it was the , the ordinary people themselves who , who should shape their own destiny . |
25 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
26 | Now my , I mean I would have to say , I mean very clearly , that they 're inseparable . |
27 | So I mean I would have thought they 've got ta comply with the same |
28 | Well , he need n't , I mean I would have stayed in bed . |
29 | I mean I would put that under group work and social skills and no er the way I would approach it but it may not apply . |
30 | Now I mean I would hate to use the money we 've got . |