Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Well I 'd want over a hundred for that .
2 As this is a disk-only game , you 'd expect quite an accomplished product with many detailed screens .
3 Personally , I 'd choose somewhere a little further away . ’
4 He sat in silence for a minute then said : 'l think I 'd like just a small whisky now , Mr Dalgliesh , if it 's all the same to you . ’
5 there 's a four year , you think they 'd fit quite a lot into that , cos a lot of it is holiday .
6 No I I 'd suggest perhaps a couple of categories of non-verbal communication .
7 In spite of his earlier suggestion that I should talk as I ate , Sir Edmund refused to listen to me until I 'd put away a plate of his favourite devilled kidneys .
8 ‘ My life 's insured by the department , ’ he explains to Felicity , ‘ so that if anything happens to me you 'd get both a lump sum and a regular income .
9 I thought she 'd get rather a lot of cheap publicity . ’
10 Yeah , I could make , I could do their hair and do their clothes and their face and I 'd get about a hundred pounds , more than that .
11 I 'd get quite a surprise because very s small number of men in the shop .
12 I 'd get quite a bit now
13 No I would n't splash it all out but I 'd get quite a bit cos of the twenty years .
14 We 'd get quite a lot of people I think .
15 It was yeah they 'd come quite a long way actually .
16 She remains in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary under observation but a hospital spokesman could not say if she would remain there a second night .
17 Schemes for the unemployed , such as community work , might be helpful for those involved but would cover only a fraction of the three million people out of work , he said .
18 ‘ That would make even a vicar laugh ! ’
19 But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’
20 I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube .
21 Fine , well I am sure it would make quite a good essay .
22 He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire .
23 ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat .
24 Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power .
25 Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society .
26 He mentions a café where he would eat once a day .
27 Others said that to do so would damage further an already deprived population .
28 Our existence would lack even an Adamic fig leaf of meaning if we ignored our capacity to glide over our past , coalescing and juxtaposing our memories , irrespective of their temporal spatial or circumstantial labels .
29 It would need only a charge of the cavalry , or a shot fired over their heads , to set them off .
30 Unfortunately , there is little pipe — so you would need quite a standardisation between nut sizes large selection of open-ended spanners to cope with all the nuts you might find .
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