Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 2 | ‘ We would like to ask you a few questions about Andrew Livesey . |
| 3 | On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so . |
| 4 | I , on behalf of all her other fans around the world , would like to wish her the best of luck for 1992 . |
| 5 | All at TODAY Racing would like to wish you a happy Christmas and a very profitable 1993 . |
| 6 | Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper . |
| 7 | ‘ Gentlemen , and lady , ’ he said with a gracious nod in the direction of the only woman present , a journalist with one of the golf magazines , ‘ I do n't wish to spoil your enjoyment , but I would like to give you a brief tour , and I promise it will be brief … . ’ |
| 8 | The proprietors , management and staff of The Plough Hotel would like to offer you a warm welcome . |
| 9 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 10 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 11 | She would have said it a third , even a fourth time , but he sealed her mouth with his own , possessing its sweetness with a plunderer 's purpose . |
| 12 | ‘ Crumps , that stonework would have hit us a nasty crack-at the pace I was going . |
| 13 | She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that . |
| 14 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 15 | ‘ If the business had been in good heart it would have cost you a great deal more . |
| 16 | Without realizing I was lucky that her hands were stuck in the dough she w she would have given me a thick ear you know for for for doing that . |
| 17 | I mean , I would have given him a good kick if I 'd do stood along side of him ! |
| 18 | ‘ Even before you pointed out his similarity to Clinton , I would have given him a reasonable rating . |
| 19 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 20 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 21 | But her belief that all women , regardless of wealth , should be offered clothes that were artistic and beautiful , not brash , sexually offensive or uncomfortable , would have made her a worthy member of most of the nineteenth-century dress reform movements . |
| 22 | He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’ |
| 23 | His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion . |
| 24 | ‘ If I did not believe that , I would have advised our club president , James King , to go to a venue that would have made us a comparative fortune . ’ |
| 25 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 26 | Another penny would have made it a tidy |
| 27 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 28 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 29 | Thus the FA would have to pay us a decent fee , did n't someone mention £15 mil and we could then go out and get a good manager ( Terry Yorath etc etc ) plus we 'd have a fair share of the £15 mil to buy players i.e a really good center back and a good striker ! ! ! |
| 30 | The tweedy lady , very county , who suffered from some extreme fungoid disease of her feet , which were wrapped in many layers of polythene and which in a public cinema would have guaranteed her a whole row to herself , but at the NFT caused whoever was unfortunate to have the adjoining numbered seat to retain vivid Aromavision memories of particular films . |