Example sentences of "as [pron] 'd [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , much as I 'd love to stay on here , I 'm afraid it is n't going to be feasible . |
| 2 | I mean , a hundred and fifty a week — that 's as much as I 'd 've expected you to get for actually acting . ’ |
| 3 | Just as I 'd expect of Maurice 's sister . ’ |
| 4 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think he 's thinking of marrying , but even if he asked me , I 'd refuse him , as I 'd refuse any man . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But as much as I 'd like to continue playing for the North , I suddenly thought there 's more to life than sitting on the M1 . |
| 7 | ‘ Much as I 'd like to think my father was somebody important , there 's no real evidence . |
| 8 | Mummy is there and I 'd thought she was in good hands but of course I could n't visit her as often as I 'd like while earning my megamillions . |
| 9 | Yours ( not as experienced as I 'd like to be ) , |
| 10 | ‘ Not half as much as I 'd like to — ’ the voice stopped . |
| 11 | I do n't talk to Alan much as I 'd like to because he does n't respond , does n't discuss . |
| 12 | If I 've got a lot to do I ca n't actually take as much time as I 'd like over it . |
| 13 | Not as many as I 'd like |
| 14 | ‘ Not as much as I 'd like to , lady , ’ he retorted grimly , his lips thinning to a cruel white line . |
| 15 | I 'd like confirmation that he 's as crippled as he appears to be , because , much as I 'd like to , I can think of no way in which a man in his apparent condition could have pulled off this murder . ’ |
| 16 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 17 | ‘ Much as I 'd like to go for a hat trick , my sweet , I have to admit that I 'm not Superman . |
| 18 | ‘ Not as often as I 'd like . |
| 19 | ‘ Not so fast as I 'd like , ’ she says . |
| 20 | But he said , I said it as a joke when she was asking me about my flying and I said I do n't do as much flying as I 'd like to , I 've , I 've got a wife to support and she takes all the money . |
| 21 | Never get , you know , as big a selection as I 'd like to get in there . |
| 22 | ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field . |
| 23 | She said I was cutting her out just as I 'd cut out other people in my life . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Walker thought , as I 'd come to see you before , it would be best if I came again . |
| 25 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 26 | That first night was terrible , especially as I 'd become engorged and full of milk . |
| 27 | I did n't own a pair of binoculars , so I could n't observe the birds as closely as I 'd have wished , but I had something much closer to watch . |
| 28 | But this first impression is grossly misleading — as you 'd realise if you heard Diversion 's rather wonderful EP , ‘ BZ ’ — four short , sharp pop songs which roll around experimentally in a wide field of influences and still come up smelling of roses , mainly because they 're all squashed together into spunky two and a half minute blasts . |
| 29 | ‘ If you mean drugs , then no , Adam , you 're way off line and you have been all the time — as you 'd realise for yourself if you 'd just open your eyes and see the truth instead of what you want to see . ’ |
| 30 | As you 'd guess , most of ‘ Mexican R'n'B ’ was recorded live ( although Edgar did have to double on guitar when regular guitarist Ged Lynn went AWOL in the middle of recording ) . |