Example sentences of "[adj] thing [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other interesting thing you would find about vocabulary and treatment between the tabloids and the Independent is the Independent has a policy of very little coverage of the Royal Family and I suspect that other than a paragraph or a sentence or two of introduction , that those four paragraphs at the foot of the page are simply the text of her speech courtiers and media blamed as the Princess retreats from public life , I suspect that you will find that that is not a story , it is simply a statement of fact and an actual reprint of the text of her speech . |
| 2 | Just when you started to think you had finally got a grip on this thing they would throw in the Bombay Khojas and you were right back where you started . |
| 3 | Were he to say any such thing we would be left with a therapeutic murder . |
| 4 | Chair , just before we go into , there 's one quick thing I would like to add . |
| 5 | ‘ The music of the sidh is the most remarkable thing you would ever hear , ’ said Dierdriu . |
| 6 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 7 | The pursuit of good living is not the innocent thing you would like it to be , my dear ; you were n't born in time to watch my compatriots during the war , the energies they put into it , the boys dying Pour La Patrie while the family at home fought about L'Héritage and assured the survival of La Bonne Cuisine . |
| 8 | Plus within my environmental thing I would like to be able to see if we can get four areas within the school and what I was thinking about , not the big areas outside in the gardens etcetera but do you know as you walk along from our corridor up past the dining hall and there 's that little bit of enclosed space |
| 9 | And I suppose , I mean if I was to answer the question was it a good thing I would have to say no . |
| 10 | So the important thing I would say , is just to improve the physical appearance . |
| 11 | I think that would be one thing we would do . |
| 12 | ‘ One thing I would say is that we get inundated with rent-a-quote demands . |
| 13 | One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig . |
| 14 | yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it . |
| 15 | ‘ Before we go there 's one thing I would like to do . |
| 16 | Erm but one thing I would say , is that erm we did n't go into long term erm debt to get things like three pieces and and bedroom suite and things like this . |
| 17 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |
| 18 | One thing I would say , it 's very difficult to put over , is to get over , of the part you 've paid back |
| 19 | But one thing I would say and I think this is very valid and think pe it wo n't be long before people start to pick up on it and er we have n't got a national accounts , a proper national accounts team cos we have n't got the people and we all know the reasons why but nevertheless you know they 're , they 're pinpointing areas of big business with big companies like and and not allowed to go into new business |
| 20 | I tell you one thing I would n't like to be him ! |
| 21 | When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway . |
| 22 | The one thing he would never have said was I 'm looking for someone . |
| 23 | For one thing he would have to acknowledge that Sarah was not barren , so it must be his own fault she had n't given him children . |
| 24 | For one thing he would n't even cross the street . |
| 25 | But , if first impressions were anything to go by , one thing it would not be : boring . |
| 26 | ‘ But before I go on to thank our host , Lord Darlington , I have some small thing I would wish to remove from my chest . |
| 27 | I have interviewed people who had spent 30 years in a big bureaucracy who said that the 6-month development task force was the only thing they were excited by and the only thing they would be remembered for — change was their mark on the organization . |
| 28 | the only thing they would , they would tell us about is what 's happening in Iraq , there |
| 29 | The only thing we would say is that we must have a clear vision of our formal and stylistic intentions before we begin . |
| 30 | About the only thing you would n't be able to say about it is that it ‘ washes whiter ’ . |