Example sentences of "would [vb infin] if [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I would think if everything went right , it would be something like seven hours |
2 | I do not criticise , I merely observe ; and I 'm not sure what I would think if everyone lined the rail to admire the play of light on the water and started discussing Boudin . |
3 | But er I often wonder what the nurses today would think if they if that 's all they n they got . |
4 | But what do you think my parents would think if I were to become involved with you ? |
5 | I would think if she think 's she 's gon na be a bit nervous then I 'll get . |
6 | I would think if you looked carefully you would find that most people are . ’ |
7 | I would think if you were n't , you must have been very nearly . |
8 | I I I just wonder what the opposition would think if you decided that the criteria approach alone was not acceptable and you equally decided you had n't enough information to specify a location , where would that leave you ? |
9 | I would think if you were felt the area of the houses on that side , the area of the houses on the Thorny side you would think that one 's |
10 | and you would think if you change every bloody thing out |
11 | I wondered what on earth John would think if he saw all this ; his friends in church , many for the first time in years , strangers saying prayers for him , me weeping over his photograph . |
12 | She wondered what Colonel Hoggatt would think if he could visit his laboratory now . |
13 | Mrs Roberts advised her to mend her temper before her daddy came home , and asked what Parr would think if he caught her like a toddler in a tantrum . |
14 | well I would think if it could lodged during the course of the next ten days or so |
15 | It 's the sort of ’ You stupid boy , stop trying to drown yourself ’ speech I can imagine I would deliver if I were dragging a recalcitrant lad back to land . |
16 | Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government . |
17 | ‘ I would laugh if I saw pepper coming out of a fishtank . ’ |
18 | Said oh I thought oh Becky would laugh if I told her this . |
19 | You can perform relaxation exercises lying down but we would prefer if you try initially sitting in a comfortable armchair . |
20 | The Yek was dressed in silver silks so fine that Rostov thought that they would bruise if anything brushed against them . |
21 | But at this thought rage grasped her and shook her with red-hot hands , so that her eyes went dark and she found herself walking fast up the road , and then along another , and another , walking as though she would explode if she stopped . |
22 | ‘ There Can Only Be One ’ is an epic and yet , spookily , restrained pop song , the sort of record Marc Almond would make if he did n't like shouting so much . |
23 | That is , he will not make the same judgements as he would make if he were viewing the scene itself . |
24 | But at a distance , and with some of the pressure off , Coleman began to wonder how much difference it would make if he did . |
25 | After that , Waits retreats into his usual ho humdrum bummed-out bluesywoozy alkie drone mode mood muzak , the sort of mozzery gushy mush your dog would make if it had vocal chords and could handle its drink . |
26 | On these cassettes you will hear the voice of the hypnotherapist , who will help you to achieve the desired state , then give you the same suggestions that he or she would make if you were in the consulting room ; finally , the hypnotherapist will wake you up again . |
27 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
28 | McElroy 's job — and that of most of the other 1100 people who work for NESDIS — would disappear if he discovers that firms are willing to take over . |
29 | Conservative seats at risk to Labour : Bristol East : Jonathan Sayeed 's 4,123 majority would disappear if there were a 4.1 per cent swing to challenger Jean Corston , a barrister . |
30 | There were telephones , and they would answer if she knocked loudly enough . |