Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wayne 's World may have made Scooby Doo hip , but we 're talking serious addiction to cartoon characters that even your five-year-old sister would think are naff . |
| 2 | I mean the r the risk of progression is i i I would think is minuscule erm and erm you 're only talking about changes in size not risk of of erm muscle invasion , and I think therefore |
| 3 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 4 | Congress , if I asked the question , is there a shop steward in the house , I would 've been confident to say yes , but they all seem to be leaving . |
| 5 | In any other house this would 've been normal , but in theirs it was eerie , unnatural . |
| 6 | With up to 8Mb on the motherboard there probably is n't any need for expansion if the machine is used solely as a network station , but it would 've been nice to find a PCMCIA slot for something like a modem . |
| 7 | I do n't think I would 've been married fifty eight years . |
| 8 | Hadst thou only purloined Issue 80 thy poster would 've been complete ! |
| 9 | That would 've been good . |
| 10 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 11 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 12 | I should 've said that to Marie — I reckon that would 've been OK . |
| 13 | If it had happened in a car accident and had been someone else 's fault , perhaps I would 've been bitter . |
| 14 | If , if she had believed the aim to keep it off , I would 've been jealous , but she , she 's not going to find it easy to keep her weight , she 's out here when she 's put back on pound . |
| 15 | Well , it would 've been handy would n't it ? some of them . |
| 16 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 17 | You would 've been safe … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Pa would 've been livid with me for getting pregnant , and he would n't want his precious fiddle going to pay for anything to do with it . ’ |
| 19 | that so , th that sort of policy would be very , would 've been difficult |
| 20 | Yeah , because that would 've been ideal . |
| 21 | No , they , they only done that because it would 've been hard for us I think , in the |
| 22 | S : No sitcom ever changed my life — had you said soap opera , it would 've been different . |
| 23 | Yeah I I think , had they given their side of the argument at the onset , then er things would 've been different . |
| 24 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 25 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 26 | Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 27 | What it would do is close our collieries , place this country at the mercy of international coal traders , and give Britain an added trade deficit of about £900 million per annum , for a hypothetical saving of just over £1.25 per week for the average household . |
| 28 | The second point being that erm if a figure was to be identified for Greater York , we 'd feel that this would er unduly interfere with our duties and responsibilities as a District Council to allocate land in our district , cos in effect what it would do is direct us to making a housing allocation in one particular settlement , Shipton , we feel that 's our responsibility not the County Council . |
| 29 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 30 | They are as agile as goats on their spindly legs , and can be seen grazing on cliff ledges which you would swear were inaccessible to anything without wings . |