Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Joanna Wood , 48A Pimlico Road , SW1 , is one of those shops that sells charming fripperies , the sort of place where you can be sure of finding the very thing for someone who would prefer to buy their own toaster but who would love to be given a Limoges breakfast set or monogrammed shoe-bag .
2 Perhaps you would prefer to make your own cage .
3 He also said that he would want to do his own stunt work in an escape sequence .
4 But why someone like that would want to endanger his own property by killing off one of the boys is beyond me . ’
5 It would 've given us another month to play with at least .
6 He asked his colleague if he would consider giving him some age-regression therapy in an attempt to deal with the problem , whatever it was , that had been brought to light .
7 Well er as I say I think , er if if if the County Council are are insisting that any new settlement erm should be self contained , I think one would need to see what that definition is before we can be clear as to whether or not it has it has strategic implications .
8 The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name .
9 As for my hon. Friend 's other idea , I wonder whether she would enjoy having her own constituency split , with one half represented by a man called Billy and the other by a woman called Ricca .
10 Unveiling the new DPX/20 line of systems , currently just RS/6000s with a Bull badge on the front , the company revealed that it would begin adding its own design work to the systems by year-end .
11 For budding artists who would like to stage their own exhibition , but are put off by the costs of framing , a visit to the Melford Fine Arts is a must .
12 For budding artists who would like to stage their own exhibition , but are put off by the costs of framing , a visit to the Melford Fine Arts is a must .
13 What I want to do wha with the bulldozer I got I would like to poke it that shovel one .
14 One one of the many reasons why I do n't want to accept this Labour resolution er , I would like to support my own member , is that er we have very , that there will be appoint a
15 Nigel Mansell says that things are changing and he 's better than ever and he would like to give it another shot
16 Airtours is keen to expand , but as Mr Coe points out , it has expanded so far mainly by organic growth and would like to continue it that way .
17 Before planning any future event we would like to know what both class members and teachers feel about the running of the day and any suggestions you may have on making the days more popular .
18 Auriculas are the most desirable of flowers but if you are n't green-fingered , or would like to have them all year round , Carless & Gray sells diy fake-auricula kits which you assemble and paint yourself .
19 I replied that I did n't think I would be a very good secretary but that one day I would like to run my own gallery .
20 He said : ‘ Many more tenants would like to buy their own house but can not quite afford to do so .
21 ‘ We would hope to compile our own training programmes , specifically adapted to procedures adopted in our own libraries .
22 It appears that the mother would be eligible for financial assistance in returning with the children to Australia , whereas the father and the lady with whom he now lives would have to fund their own travel arrangements to England and to that extent the father would be disadvantaged .
23 Of course if Adam had invited his parents to make themselves at home at Wyvis Hall , use it as a hotel , while he was away , they would have lent him any amount , but that was the last thing Adam would have done .
24 But Guy would have staked his own soul on the fact that Isabel had never lain with a man .
25 He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol .
26 Before the dealers could say Jack Robinson let alone sell their clients out their teamleader would have offloaded his own stock , making a handsome profit for himself .
27 When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier .
28 Huy was still not sure how he would have answered his own question .
29 No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James .
30 She really would have to see him some time .
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