Example sentences of "you would [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd prefer to be villainous ? ’ |
| 2 | Naturally , you 'd prefer to be alive . |
| 3 | ‘ Or maybe you 'd prefer to be invigorated by another stalemate argument with me on the subject . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ The doc offered one of your safe houses , but I did n't think you 'd want to be that much involved . |
| 6 | ‘ I can see you 'd want to be there if Dana was discovered with Garry , ’ she laughed . |
| 7 | ‘ Not the sort of chap you 'd want to be captain of a team . ’ |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 10 | Getting Hoomey to swim ten lengths was … well , you 'd need to be a magician , Nails thought , not a teacher . |
| 11 | Daisy wished she could paint it , but you 'd need to be Lady Butler to capture that lot . |
| 12 | that is a luxury I think erm to be able to do it , if you want to write and earn money , which I do as well as , as socialize while I 'm working erm you 've got to find ways of , of , of doing that and erm just writing books and poetry just would n't , I , I , I could n't survive on that , I really do have to find other ways of , of earning money which is enjoying more and also uses of my skill and erm I would think you 'd need to be in contact with the situation rather than you not knowing , being able to write about that . |
| 13 | You see yo really you 'd need to be you 'd need to be only need to be paying back about four grand you see , though ? |
| 14 | You see yo really you 'd need to be you 'd need to be only need to be paying back about four grand you see , though ? |
| 15 | You 'd like to be capable of violence … |
| 16 | If you 'd like to be considered for selection , answer the following five questions clearly and concisely ( please type double-spaced on A4 paper ) and fill in the entry form below . |
| 17 | ‘ The art of interviewing is to put together various theories on the basis of the available evidence , not the evidence you 'd like to be there . |
| 18 | In the meantime we 've got 24 notebooks to give away , so if you 'd like to be in with a chance of winning one , send a postcard with your name , age , address and pack name to : BROWNIE /Notebook Offer , . |
| 19 | Then Kevin said , " I bet you 'd like to be an Indian Princess , would n't you , Julie ? " |
| 20 | I thought you 'd like to be certain . ’ |
| 21 | If you 'd like to be it means you want to be . |
| 22 | And you never say you 'd like to be taken out for a change , or ring him up when you want a bit of company ? ’ |
| 23 | They 've done before you realise it , and once they 're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you 'd like to be and you 've lost your true self forever . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd like to be rich , then ? ’ |
| 25 | Call us on if you 'd like to be included in where are you now , the feature at three thirty . |
| 26 | So you 'd like to be put down on the ballot to be approved do you ? |
| 27 | I mean as long as we 've got something which is in the of where we want to be , we can actually measure how well we 're performing against our own plan , which I think is what you 'd like to be able to do . |
| 28 | really well you know I always think sometimes you 'd like to be sort of be crazy would n't you ? |
| 29 | You 'd have to be daft not to want to give it a go . |
| 30 | You 'd have to be getting back , anyway , would n't you ? ’ |