Example sentences of "we would [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if I got summat Annie wanted — you know , like a little necklace or a whistle or summat , I 'd just give it to her , and Mum would say what a polite boy I was , and Dad would smile at me , and we 'd all be happy . |
| 2 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 3 | We 'd all be better off if it were abandoned . ’ |
| 4 | If you had n't been here we 'd all be in a far worse pickle . |
| 5 | And suddenly we 'd all be in Amsterdam or Paris or something like somebody 's idea of America for the evening , or else it would still be our own dear city , but from very definitely another era , all striped Regency wallpaper and framed Angus McBean photographs of Vivien Leigh ; or another time there 'd be nothing but opera on the sound system for a whole week , there 'd be complaints of course but Madame would say , I 'm just trying to give you boys an education , and Gary at least would be very happy . |
| 6 | We 'd all be as bad as Stalin if we did some of the things you suggest . ’ |
| 7 | We 'd all start walking . |
| 8 | It was n't like working here , where I could slip into Spanish when things got ropey , and afterwards we 'd all go to the bar and tone up the group dynamics over a few drinks . |
| 9 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |
| 10 | We 'd all be glad of that . |
| 11 | If we were n't , we 'd all be Klingons . |
| 12 | No bombs , of course — they could easily check up on bombs — just an alert , so we 'd all be forced to find a shelter . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Patsy Pill would have a fit if she found out , and we 'd all be at defaulters ’ . ' |
| 14 | After lights-out we 'd all get up and play with this planchette thing . |
| 15 | ‘ With hindsight , we 'd all do things differently . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ We 'd all go out together . |
| 17 | In those days , if you stuck an advert for the cinema in your window , you got free tickets , and long before I ever understood any kind of plot , we 'd all troop down to the local flea pit and watch whatever was showing . |
| 18 | If coaching were simply a matter of putting down on a piece of paper 10 points to improve , we 'd all be world beaters . |
| 19 | One day we 'd all rise up together into the sun . |
| 20 | We ca n't all sit around laughing , 'cos we 'd all die pretty soon because there was no-one to gather food , or make sure it was safe . |
| 21 | I think we 'd all like to see a highlights programme the same night as the match , when emotion is still running high . |
| 22 | In the best of all possible worlds , we 'd all quarantine our pond fish . |
| 23 | OLIVER rolled his eyes back , lit a cigarette and said that the very phrase common sense was a contradiction in terms , and if Man — at which point he pretended to be extremely embarrassed and correct himself to Man-or-Woman — if Man-or-Woman had relied upon common sense over the previous millennia we 'd all still be living in mud huts and eating frightful food and listening to Del Shannon records . |
| 24 | ‘ You said Mama had crossed over somewhere , ’ Artemis continued , ‘ but we 'd all meet again . |
| 25 | If there were a formula for making profit , we 'd all be millionaires |
| 26 | During the read-through we 'd all be busy with our little pencils , marking out sections of dialogue , and saying at the end , ‘ Do n't you think we should change this to read like that ? |
| 27 | We 'd all |
| 28 | well then we 'd all be tremendously specific , well let me ask some one who does drive around on the closest we 've got to a tank driver here , Gillian you drive something very large |
| 29 | As a florist you 're dealing with most important days in peoples ' lives , very often new babies , weddings , funerals , erm but no , I would n't say if weddings disappeared we 'd all be you know , in a terrible mess as a professionals , but it 's a very important part and an enjoyable part . |
| 30 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |