Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no definite plan … if you were going to , you would want to go at the top , and we are still growing . ’ |
| 2 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 3 | They would 've looked at the lights , I know . |
| 4 | Before Mr Boutros-Ghali 's announcement , Red Cross officials in Sarajevo said the city 's soup kitchens would begin closing at the weekend because they were running out of food . |
| 5 | Er I would like to say at the outset that erm we we support the deposit version of the er the deposit version allocations of the alteration . |
| 6 | Erm , I would like to say at the start . |
| 7 | I am now writing to confirm that we would like to arrive at the factory at 3.30 pm on 13 June and to briefly film two areas of the Kit-Kat production line : the cascade of finished and wrapped bars and the slower moving line of unwrapped bars . |
| 8 | I would like to look at the people who are being cared for , the people that we 're talking about , are the elderly , quite often these people have lived through two world wars and given up their young married life , they have brought up their children through the bleak days of the general strike , is it right that these people have to suffer the indignity of charity hand-outs ? |
| 9 | The danger for Leeds was that as they began to over-extend themselves they would become exposed at the back , where they are at their weakest . |
| 10 | He would keep looking at the child . |
| 11 | Many other countries would have grabbed at the straw , but with Johnson virtually admitting guilt , the SFA representatives were unwilling to appeal . |
| 12 | It had been delivered as she paid her daily visit to the Casa Guidi or otherwise would have languished at the post office , returned as unclaimed . |
| 13 | Noodle or Blueboobs would have flown at the kid to avenge Crackpot . |
| 14 | For then , not a soul moved amongst the decay and no-one would have paused at the spot for long . |
| 15 | Many of the girls who had been in her class at school , had they been told about it , would have scoffed at the coyness and naïvety of Marie 's fantasy . |
| 16 | FINALLY : Those who feel there is too much cricket would have winced at the suggestion made by the Australian authorities , who proposed that series against England be expanded from five Tests to seven to assist the finances of their domestic game . |
| 17 | How Crapper 's eyes would have gleamed at the sight of a pampas plug-flush , low-level siphonic . |
| 18 | Many pre-Keynesian quantity theorists — most notably Irving Fisher — would have shuddered at the prospect of a prolonged bout of price deflation : the financial system might not be able to bear the strain . |
| 19 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 20 | So when the proverbial shit had hit the fan in Whitehall , Connors , or somebody like him , would have drawled at the emergency conference . |
| 21 | It would have to happen at the speed of light . |
| 22 | When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin . |
| 23 | During the long periods between revaluations , distortions in the relative valuations of different properties occurred and , of course , new property had to be valued at the notional figure that would have obtained at the date of the previous revaluation . |
| 24 | He saw the Brussels agreement being extended eventually to cover the whole of Western Europe , but each step would have to be thoroughly explored , and the overall character would have to remain at the level of intergovernmental cooperation . |
| 25 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 26 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 27 | And anyway , most girls would have jumped at the chance of lameducking them . |
| 28 | If I were Batty I would have jumped at the offer . |
| 29 | It involved quick learning of the part , for she would have to appear at the matinée ; but in fact there were few lines to say , and most of the acting involved being laid on a sofa by a young man and proposed to , after various adventures which were mostly physical . |
| 30 | I would have to guess at the others because I did n't do erm sums on the other ones it was only on the last play but if it 's on the same sort of erm proportions , then I would say somewhere around thirty percent of the audience are concessions . |