Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd stay there until they docked in Ibiza if necessary . |
| 3 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We did n't know they 'd run away before you 'd finished with them , ’ one of the soldiers was grumbling sullenly . |
| 5 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
| 6 | She did n't see why people were supposed to work hard if you ground their noses ; it seemed more likely that they 'd work hard if you promised to grind their noses if they did n't . |
| 7 | He 'd sleep later when he returned to the track , curled awkwardly on the back seat of the car under an overcoat . |
| 8 | He said he 'd go quietly if I did n't make it public , and I agreed . |
| 9 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 10 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 11 | " But he 'd flinch anywhere if you squeeze him like you 're doing . " |
| 12 | ‘ Not when I think of the trouble she 's caused , and she 'd cause more if she got the chance . ’ |
| 13 | Probably some , who considered the idea of Making Ends Meet unacceptable and unbecoming , i.e. those enjoying the thrusting Live-Now-Pay-Later lifestyle of the 1990s , would think differently if they knew that the cost of borrowing the £5,000 that would extricate them from the consequences of their cavalier attitude would cost them almost another £5,000 . |
| 14 | For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne . |
| 15 | She would eat fast if she felt like it . |
| 16 | For many disabled people , unwanted dependence on others would disappear overnight if they lived in a physical environment which did not handicap them . |
| 17 | I also felt , as I 'm sure everybody does , that the office would fall apart when I left and that nobody would be able to take over my cases , and I worried about what state they would be in when I came back . |
| 18 | ‘ You would know immediately if you heard a Delta song . |
| 19 | They would know more when they had the report from Ballistics . |
| 20 | Steve would feel exactly as she had felt when she had thought Fernando was the father of that child — absolute desolation . |
| 21 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 22 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 23 | If she had n't known her twin better , Dana 's mask of sophistication could have wounded her deeply , particularly when she persisted in being so sure that Roman would do exactly as she wished . |
| 24 | Up there she 's got no disrespect , somebody who 's not quite as bright as they might be er and she 's not working overtime as they would do here if they got behind , they 're working half eight to half four is it Ray ? |
| 25 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman would do better if he chose his targets with more precision . |
| 27 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 28 | For my part , I think Benedict would do better if she does not saddle him with it . ’ |
| 29 | They would do so because they receive convergent input from cells at the lower levels of the system that represent the defining properties of that object . |
| 30 | Unfortunately he had n't repeated that success and Inspector he had remained , and would do so until he left the force . |