Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'd like to sleep as much as anyone , but if we all sleep and something comes , who 's going to spot it ? " |
| 2 | If we did go ahead , we 'd like to exchange as soon as possible . |
| 3 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 4 | but if I 'd have give it , had to give them some water they 'd have done much better but I , like everybody else we kept hoping it were gon na rain , but ! |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 6 | You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out . |
| 7 | Well because you 'd have to pay even more if you did it privately . |
| 8 | They 'd have to try much harder than this . |
| 9 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 10 | As regards the timing of the announcement , the Directors , in consultation with Unions and personnel professionals , decided that those affected would want to know immediately rather than wait until after the Christmas holiday to be told . |
| 11 | The student would need to read as widely as possible in different kinds of poetry , to learn something about literary history , genre , and convention , and to acquire the practical-critical skills of close reading . |
| 12 | The Court also favoured the interpretation of Article 27(d) which would enable requesting as well as requested States to use domestic law procedures , but even on a narrower reading saw nothing in Article 27 to limit the power of a requesting State . |
| 13 | If he had been on his own he would have gone straight up but he was more used to walking and climbing , no doubt , than these policemen . |
| 14 | He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church . |
| 15 | er pie , chips and peas , hot actually , bread roll and butter , for one ninety nine , I was n't half pleased , well that just suit us cos it , we would have gone somewhere else and had coffee and a cake it would of cost you , one fifty each |
| 16 | In fact , Berger completed the slowing down lap , which indicated a pessimistic computer and justified his theory that , had Schumacher got really close in the final laps , he would have gone flat out and to hell with the consequences . |
| 17 | If not he would have to leave as soon as possible without arousing suspicion . |
| 18 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 19 | I have to say that if this room was filled by the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland and they were pushing me very hard about divorce , I would have to say very clearly that their fear that civil divorce will make marital breakdown worse , or enhance or facilitate it — my answer would be : No , it will make very little difference . |
| 20 | If they 'd spent time doing that , once against the backs would have stood idly around until the forwards reckoned that they 'd got their act nicely in order . |
| 21 | Those who first heard this story would have understood well enough that if the rebel leaders were to be punished , then the other members of their families might have to suffer with them . |
| 22 | He said that residents of the first floor flats , which had not been flooded had been told that they would have to return as soon as possible . |
| 23 | Son batted at least as well as Miandad and Mujtaba , and lasted longer than Malcolm or Ramiz , but it has to be admitted that with a fifth day available , his team would have lost as surely as England did . |
| 24 | Well the insurance would have to go as well as I could n't afford to keep that going . |
| 25 | I would have to go as fast as I could while I could still see the way , and then rest for longer , and then probably crawl . |
| 26 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |
| 27 | The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations . |
| 28 | Even the pilgrims would have learned relatively little for they rarely strayed far from their fixed itinerary of shrines and hostels ; like tourists they saw nothing except monuments and hotels . |
| 29 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 30 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |