Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the boss had been more assertive he could have said something like , ‘ I would appreciate some more help . |
| 2 | If you ask me how I would indulge myself if forced to , I suppose I would put some comfortable footwear near the top of the list . |
| 3 | How however , I mean from a a broader point of view I think I would have some general reservations as have been confessed previously by Mr Earle and and Mr Jewitt . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , a project is under consideration in the US for some 300,000 windmills spread across the plains which would supply some 200,000 MW of electricity , more than half the present US installed capacity . |
| 5 | ‘ I do wish she would meet some nice fellow and run off with him . |
| 6 | While she was going round she would collar some dearer item off the shelves , slipping it into one of her capacious pockets . |
| 7 | Sylvia would be acknowledged to be Burkett 's daughter , she would perform some small chores , but chiefly be explained away as evidence of Hope 's goodness of heart in giving his ‘ man 's ’ daughter the chance of a change of air . |
| 8 | Well , then , she would buy some new gowns — just one or two , perhaps — that she might , as Rose said , fit better with the work she had done on the house . |
| 9 | Who would like some green jelly and ice cream ? |
| 10 | Who would like some more coffee ? |
| 11 | The point is , you do not have to work the garment exactly to the proportions given if you have concluded that you would prefer some minor adjustment … |
| 12 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 13 | We 're going to keep making a lot of investments in the future because that 's what we 're excited about , and if that means we would sacrifice some short-term profitability for long-term technology , we would do that , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Yes , if we did n't have pupil comment we would miss some absolute pearls like Mr is a lying git ! |
| 15 | He was always careful to wash his chiselled visage , of course , but in a year of passion one would think some small scent would have escaped , a tracking odour that would put her senses on alert . |
| 16 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 17 | 94 , the plaintiff , a seaman , claimed that the defendant , the captain of his ship , had promised him five guineas over and above his ordinary wages if he would perform some extra work in navigating the ship , the promise having been made , when the ship was in danger , to induce the seamen to exert themselves . |
| 18 | Daniel is our guest perhaps he would like some more cake . ’ |
| 19 | After all these years of minding a child he would enjoy some intellectual companionship . |
| 20 | He realised that he would need some more writing paper , as well as something to eat . |
| 21 | The urgency with which Mr Major acted left MPs in no doubt he would have some harsh words for Mr Delors . |
| 22 | General Dynamics suggested that the cancellation would force it to lay off 4,000 of its 100,000 employees , while McDonnell Douglas estimated that it would make some 3,000 redundancies . |
| 23 | This could be just the job for her — and it would generate some new income to replace what we 've lost . |
| 24 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |
| 25 | I am thinking of a feeling of confidence which has been built up and which it would take some drastic change to break down . |
| 26 | And once broken , once the grief and tears had begun , it would take some little time for her to recover , although now that she had faced what had happened she might do so more quickly and easily than she would have done had she continued suppressing her memories , and refusing healthy grieving . |
| 27 | Margie had not pressed Hugo to talk about Greg Martin though her professional instincts had nagged at her that if she could probe a little into the association it would produce some riveting television . |