Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , we would rather do it that way . |
| 2 | Michael had tried to book Guildford , but they would only offer us one week as they felt we could n't guarantee an audience for longer . |
| 3 | She would not give him that pleasure , she thought savagely . |
| 4 | It would not do you any credit to stay on in Munich without an appointment . |
| 5 | If we started with a clean sheet of paper we would not plan it that way . |
| 6 | The US government 's five-year US$2,000 million Andean anti-drug aid programme [ see pp. 36889 ; 37243-44 ; 37451 ] suffered a setback on Sept. 27 when President Alberto Keinya Fujimori announced that he would not accept US military aid worth US$35,900,000 to combat drug trafficking . |
| 7 | You could , of course , have the cement , sand and gravel delivered , and hire a mixer , but you would still find it hard work shovelling it all in and out . |
| 8 | He liked her quietness , her gentleness and he thought he would probably marry her one day . |
| 9 | I would think Frank Clarke would probably give him another minute or so to see if he can run it off . |
| 10 | I think I would probably do it dark green . |
| 11 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 12 | ‘ It would also give us more capacity for spot colour which more advertisers seem to require , ’ said Mr Morton . |
| 13 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 14 | In awareness of everything relevant to the issue ( = everything which would spontaneously move me one way or the other ) , I find myself moved towards X , overlooking something relevant I find myself moved towards Y. In which direction shall I let myself be moved ? |
| 15 | If it worked , which it would n't , I would n't want it that way . |
| 16 | But you would n't give me straight answer would you ? |
| 17 | You would n't give me some tea , would you , if I come home with you ? |
| 18 | But she would n't give him that satisfaction . |
| 19 | The official appointment would n't give him more money . |
| 20 | I know Rosie told me , soon after the wedding , that his bank would n't give him any help , so how did he finally raise the money ? ’ |
| 21 | He had n't wanted to sign anything , but they had said they would n't give him any money unless he did , so he 'd pretended to read the papers carefully and then signed them . |
| 22 | There 's a nice story about my , one of my favourite presidents , I told you last time , Theodore Roosevelt , Roosevelt got very frustrated with congress so he sent the American navy , he had no money , they would n't give him any money , so he sent the American navy to the Philippines and he said to congress if you want them back again you 'd better vote some more money cos they have n't got any fuel erm which is a fairly odd way of proceeding one might think . |
| 23 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 24 | They would n't do me any good with my Service I grant-you that . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd be more worried about Tony , cos I do n't think Tony 's as well wise as Paul is , in some ways really for both of them it would n't do them any harm you know because look , they 're , they 're , they 're not typical lads in many ways |
| 26 | It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty . |
| 27 | would n't do him any harm , but it would n't half make him go ah , cos it 's dead minty |
| 28 | Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did . |
| 29 | ‘ Another couple of hours , at least , and it would n't do you any harm to wait a bit . ’ |
| 30 | I would n't do it that way personally but then |