Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter .
2 Answer guide : Some of the additional information you would need relates to cost by product , potential sales volume by product , price elasticity of demand , competitor prices etc .
3 Which I would like to aim to complete by lunchtime so we can resume afresh on the others at five thirty .
4 She would have liked to fall in love with him .
5 Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend .
6 DEC/Fujitsu discussions are now rumoured as ‘ over ’ — Fujitsu is not dumping Sparc , but would have loved to go to Alpha instead — two to three years ago .
7 When Spiro Agnew had been forced to resign in 1973 , President Nixon would have preferred to appoint as vice-president the renegade Democrat , John Connally .
8 Lunch consisted of bread and cheese , neither of which Charlie would have dared to offer for sale to Mrs Smelley .
9 Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so .
10 I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place .
11 When you had obtained a divorce a mensa et toro , you would have had to appear by counsel before the House of Lords for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii .
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