Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I 'd rather go to bed with you than see round any house , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Then I thought stuff that , I 'd rather go to Ibiza with my literary agent , Alison , and take some Ecstasy . |
| 3 | A blind person remarked : ‘ If someone said to me ‘ You 'd better not do this placement ’ then I 'd rather walk to Australia on my hands than admit that I could n't . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd generally go to supper by eight , and when we stick to these old-fashioned rules we shall make our visitors conform to them too . |
| 5 | Now I 'd just like to sort of This is a This is not very clear on here but I would just like to bring out This is an accident which happened down in Kent about two years ago now . |
| 6 | I 'd just like to sort of show you And th this is a |
| 7 | He 'd gradually come to terms with the fairly obvious fact ( as most of his comrades already had ) that wartime associations were almost inevitably doomed to dissolution . |
| 8 | But you do n't like to because of the fact you know he 'll be erm sort of lugging it around and you 'd feel you 'd actually have to sort of hurry him up would n't you ? |
| 9 | and you 'd feel you 'd actually have to sort of hurry him up would n't you , you know hurry up because |
| 10 | I started up WordStar full of apprehension , thinking I 'd never get to grips with all those cryptic keystroke shortcuts . |
| 11 | Margot was slow at her schoolwork , and , with little chance of improving , it was hoped that she would eventually emigrate to Palestine with her sister . |
| 12 | And a Manchester mother vowed she would rather go to prison for life than pay a £4,000 bill run up by her son . |
| 13 | She was a clever woman with obscure sources of energy who would suddenly start to garden by torchlight late at night , or walk wilfully all the way to Soho to buy vegetables at the times when the pin in her hipbone was especially painful . |
| 14 | Well that 's something we would obviously have to sort of , I mean maybe it 's something where you know I mean with the |
| 15 | These differences in motivation would naturally lead to differences in formulations of objectives by the various groups . |
| 16 | For this , those feminists , such as Finch and Groves ( 1983 ) , who espoused the cause of their older sisters , can take some credit , particularly in the challenge they threw down to those who assumed without question that such roles would naturally fall to women on their own . |
| 17 | Then , in a light haze of vodka in a Toronto hotel room , came the moment that would finally lead to recognition for Nicholson as an actor . |
| 18 | The chairmanship would thus pass to Zaïre for January 1991 . |
| 19 | On the other hand , a variable , service-orientated transaction ( such as that provided by an international hotel concierge ) would best respond to recruitment of the right person in the first place . |
| 20 | They would soon go to sleep in the back of the car . |
| 21 | In fact , it is unlikely that you would ever need to side-slip without full airbrake unless the airbrakes became frozen or jammed . |
| 22 | Some aspects of the present situation such as urban unemployment and the evolution of communication and educational technology are important because they may lead to changes in educational systems which would coincidentally lead to changes in development . |
| 23 | He would also go to Tangier to be close to his friend , the Hon George Borwick , who was married to a South African diamond multi-millionairess and was a member of the baking powder business . |
| 24 | This specialisation of function would also apply to ownership of aircraft . |
| 25 | The same approach would also apply to contracts of supply such as bailment and contracts of hire . |
| 26 | But to attract the funds needed to capitalize , NoS would have to persuade a merchant bank to sponsor it , which would inevitably lead to confrontation over the Right-On organizational principles on which the project was based . |
| 27 | Although it is not clear that subjective risk can be biased in this way theories of driving which stress a schematic or conceptual representation of the environment ( e.g. Dubois , 1991 ; Fleury , Mazet & Dubois , 1988 ; Groeger , 1988 , 1989 ; Riemersma , 1988 ) might suggest that biases in the perception of the environment would indirectly lead to biases in subjective risk , either because risk is an important aspect of such schemata or because subjective risk would result from the inconsistency between the environment and pre-existing schemata . |
| 28 | Although it was made clear that their incentives would simply extend to exemption from basic customs control ( unless or until their products entered European Community territory ) and that there would be no other special assistance , the government received 45 applications for designation . |
| 29 | There was no initial prospect of romance between her and Ian , but it was suggested her admiration for the man would sometimes lead to under-currents of antagonism between her and Susan . |
| 30 | These include the development of trade practices which become implied terms of the contract , the use of exclusion clauses purporting to modify or exclude particular duties , and the making of advance disclosure of particular activities which would otherwise amount to breaches of duty . |