Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train . |
| 2 | I 'd love to see that example of his Collected Works ! ’ |
| 3 | I 'd love to slaughter that child ! |
| 4 | I 'D love to think Olympic cycling champion Chris Boardman could whizz down our street delivering the letters on a new Royal Mail mountain bike . |
| 5 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 6 | If er , you 've got guests coming , are you looking forward to it , or are you not , and er I 'd love to hear some horror stories of er past Christmases , when you 've had er perhaps unwelcome guests , or guests who 've overstayed their welcome . |
| 7 | One day , when I can afford it , I 'd love to have two Harris 's hawks — one for hunting and one for demonstration . |
| 8 | Everyone thinks that an English Rose complexion is nice but I 'd love to have olive skin . |
| 9 | The bedroom upstairs is all ready for my brother , and I 'd prefer to have that floor to myself anyway . |
| 10 | Well , if I did , I 'd need to sell old Blazer and buy a shire horse to carry me ! |
| 11 | We played very well , but we gave away goals and I 'd hate to see throw-away goals like that on a regular basis . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd hate to practise defensive medicine , ’ commented Meryl . |
| 13 | I 'm afraid I 'd have to rewire this guitar in a more commonsense manner , so the toggle switch points towards the set of controls in use ( that 's the key , I think ) , and also so that the volumes sit fore and the tones aft , the way Gibsons and Fenders do . |
| 14 | If I 'd become known as the Man In The Pyjamas , I 'd have to wear those pyjamas for the rest of my life ! |
| 15 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
| 16 | I was beginning to think I 'd have to drink this coffee . ’ |
| 17 | She said what she said I 'd have to stay all night and all day . |
| 18 | That 's all I 'd have to eat all day . |
| 19 | I 'd have to find some way of talking to her alone . |
| 20 | I 'd hesitate to give much weight to her story in the normal run because she does seem to have a screw loose , but it ties in so well with Norman Pinder 's recollections , and they are totally independent witnesses . ’ |
| 21 | yeah but having said that erm that was something I wanted to ask you about because I mean both , both of them might need some money for higher education so , whilst I 'd like to put that sum money on one side , I 'd also possibly , you know if the need arose , would like to use it myself if I needed to for , for higher education . |
| 22 | I 'd have to ask one well I 'd like to ask one question first . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd like to live twenty-five years with ten legs or two hundred and fifty years with one leg . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd like to move this petition under my name on the green order paper , that it be referred to the environment committee for consideration today . |
| 25 | As I said , I work with Phil 's band and Genesis , and there 's usually about a year off in between so I 'd like to do another record of my own . ’ |
| 26 | Now what I 'd like to do this afternoon in the short time that we have is to outline some of the ways in which the British government is helping to meet the challenges of under development . |
| 27 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 28 | I 'd like to import this list into a database , and then mailmerge the names and addresses at the top of my document . |
| 29 | I 'd like to take that image . |
| 30 | Now before we move further I 'd like to take this opportunity of expressing on your behalf our thanks to Hugh here for the service that he 's rendered our church to this point in time but particularly as the convenor of the Board of World Mission and Unity . |