Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it would only seem like that . |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps you 'd rather finish the book and then come ? ’ |
| 3 | Or perhaps she would just tell us that her child is not yet ready ; she would be right . |
| 4 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 5 | Whether or not he would ever admit it was a different kettle of fish entirely . |
| 6 | A chocolate bar or an ice-cream , or sometimes he 'd just take them for a walk . |
| 7 | Or maybe he 'd deliberately keep it on , as the endearing-eccen-tricity of a senior major . |
| 8 | It 's just as well that Mum 's 2:7 Group are still on the go or else we would n't know anything . |
| 9 | For example if the electric charge of the electron had been only slightly different , stars either would have been unable to burn hydrogen and helium , or else they would not have exploded . |
| 10 | else , or else they 'd never do it properly would they ? |
| 11 | But it seemed , sir , when first I talked to Mrs Browning , before ever I mentioned my plan , or else I would not have mentioned it , it seemed Ferdinando was to go , that there was no choice , that he was nigh essential to your comfort , and then , having spoken out , to find he was not and therefore he would not go and my plan was to come to nothing — it is hard to understand , sir . ’ |
| 12 | Even if the examiner agrees with the candidate in his answer to ( i ) , the examiner must have meant ( ii ) to be dealt with , or else he would not have troubled to put it in . |
| 13 | And in fact if you do n't do that and you you get face to face like this with me and say well oh wait a minute you did n't tell me that on the phone last er or otherwise I would n't have bothered to see you . |
| 14 | On North went : ‘ I 'm really worried because I have the only copy and it 's in my safe , and I could cross the street tomorrow and get run over by a truck and so no-one would ever know . |
| 15 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 16 | ‘ In the early days , of course , I would keep it secret , because it was ‘ my sound ’ and so I would n't do anything for anyone else — it 's that whole trip about being a guitar player ! |
| 17 | And so I would n't think that that I probably Just a just a trait of personality . |
| 18 | And so I would n't want to be er asked to interpret any one line of this in particular , or to put any particular nuance on it because then you would say aha but that 's not what we believe . |
| 19 | And so I would n't use it , I would n't use the so we er my husband just had to take precautions and that was it . |
| 20 | But I ca n't help feeling that sugar does n't do their teeth any good , and so I would n't recommend feeding them too much of it . |
| 21 | And so she would n't like to know of your visits to a certain house in Bog 's End , would she ? ’ |
| 22 | Indeed , you had , you had thought about it and so it would just have been a case of saying , yes , this is obvious . |
| 23 | And perhaps we would n't see an orange for a fortnight , three weeks perhaps . |
| 24 | Because you 'd only get half a pound perhaps and perhaps you 'd only get perhaps , this unit 'd only get two , According to what came into the country , or what was on the market . |
| 25 | And anyway he would n't have stood for it — a woman running round and doing things on her own . |
| 26 | He realized full well that he stood no chance of getting further reinforcements , and anyway he would not have time to train them . |
| 27 | He 'd replied that this was n't a sound reason , and anyway he 'd only die on her . |
| 28 | This is not a plea for historical recorders to get their act together and check facts first-hand — I think the forces of establishment and vested interest are too strong for that to work , and anyway it would n't solve all the problems . |
| 29 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 30 | It appears to be in the early stages of transition into a red giant and normally we would not have expected to find intelligent life anywhere within its field of influence . ’ |