Example sentences of "would [adv] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
| 2 | Although of course I would rather have a Pissarro . |
| 3 | Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine . |
| 4 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
| 5 | What would happen is the prescription would be written and they 'd either get it from the chemist who would constantly have a stock coming in or the hospital . |
| 6 | So if I were you I would just have a word with your insurance company and make sure that everything 's okay but you 're obviously , they must know that you 've got to leave your er fridge-freezer switched on , so you 've got to have your mains electrics on . |
| 7 | She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’ |
| 8 | Well I did , I took it , I took it out and said , alright when I went and enquired , I said well I would normally have a cheque book now cos I 'm not always in the bank , and I had this slip to say I do n't need one will come automatically he said oh yes , but that breaking down is hopeless , then I should fill it in now and I 'll take it . |
| 9 | Note that this saving throw is not strictly speaking because of armour , and the Orc always has a saving throw of 6 even if he is struck by a weapon that would normally have a saving throw modifier . |
| 10 | He believed that the company would soon have a network of debt surveillance collectors throughout Europe . |
| 11 | Within a couple of months Constanze was pregnant , and Mozart realized that he would soon have a family to support on what was still a precarious income . |
| 12 | If they left an old rusty car on the road or a new car without road tax , they would soon have a visit from the police and the offending vehicle would have to be removed . |
| 13 | Erm I found the , the greeting and the appropriate sociability to start with very hesitant but I think that was most probably just nerves on your part Robert , I do n't think it was something that you would usually have a problem with . |
| 14 | Under the electoral system of 1918 , the Unionists had a minimum vote of at least 38 per cent of the electorate , and this would bring at least 250 seats in a parliament of 615 ; in a political world of three parties this almost guaranteed that no other party would govern alone and that the Unionists would usually have a majority . |
| 15 | Wives whose husbands earned a regular wage would usually have a copper in which to heat water for washing , and by 1914 , a mangle . |
| 16 | Even before his accident it seemed doubtful that my aunt would ever have a child of her own . |
| 17 | But I saw no other way out : I did n't know if I would ever have a chance again . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Whenever we came back to Woodbrook after a long absence , the servants would always have a fire and a meal ready to greet us , ’ Phoebe 's sister Antoinette once told me . |
| 19 | After the delivery , he would always have a cup of tea . |
| 20 | To all intents and purposes the parish would still have a vicar but he can not refuse to move elsewhere , ’ she said . |
| 21 | I guessed that London would still have a wealth of old architecture . |
| 22 | I guessed that London would still have a wealth of old architecture . |
| 23 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
| 24 | But we would still have a form tutor input i.e. a summation |
| 25 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 26 | Only to know each day that tomorrow one would still have a roof over one 's head , a bed to lie in and food to put on the table . |
| 27 | Would you say that if this pattern were to be repeated all through the night we would run out of dry-roasted nuts just before the important watershed of midnight , whereas we would still have a surplus of the ordinary variety ? |
| 28 | Under PR , the trade unions would still have a stranglehold over industrial policy , education would still be in the grip of local authorities and any proposals for effective tax cuts would have been quietly shelved . |
| 29 | I told her I thought The Times would probably have a man on the spot and it was late , and I prised my Toshiba away from her grasping hands . |
| 30 | ‘ Very often , at Ealing , the Director himself would think up ideas for films and would probably have a lot to do with the genesis of the scripts as well . ’ |