Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone can help with F1 Tornado I 'd appreciate it . |
| 2 | Well the er point I 'd like to make is that as of last Saturday the er , erm , the Soviets were building a new submarine every forty days , they 're spending thirty five percent of the G N P . |
| 3 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 4 | In today 's money it would be about thirty five million . |
| 5 | While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good . |
| 6 | Sir , I apologise , I was going by this figure made by which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March , I think and in fact , that is a an error on the officer 's part it would appear from the licensing authorities in fact , it expired at the end of May . |
| 7 | ‘ I am convinced that if the people of Cheltenham had been blind and not seen the colour of John Taylor 's skin he would have been elected , ’ said Mr Nick Leach , secretary of a Cheltenham Tory ward . |
| 8 | If you were to measure the diameter of the Shuttle 's orbit it would be longer than it would be if the Earth were n't there . ’ |
| 9 | She knew that in Paul 's presence she would be incapable of saying : ‘ I no longer want to be with him . ’ |
| 10 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |
| 11 | And I would have lost the chance to sail across the Pacific with Ellen , because Ellen was on the verge of agreeing to come with me , and if I had not yielded to the policeman 's blackmail I would have lost Ellen as well as my boat . |
| 12 | True , even costumed thus as a Trader 's mistress she would be armed — with a garrotte or two , some tiny digital weapons for slipping on to her fingers , phials of the chemicals she used . |
| 13 | ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’ |
| 14 | By the operation of sod 's law I would n't mind betting that this nice old man will turn out to be a lovely companion and will treat me as I like men to treat me . |
| 15 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 16 | And so whenever she imagined this scene , she knew that when it came to the visitor 's question she would capitulate and declare against her wishes , against her desire : ‘ Yes . |
| 17 | Now at this stage er it is the plaintiff 's case that Mr er considered that this caused major financial problems , because the property at Frinton was simply not one that was open to him to offer as security , it was clear that the bank would now as he saw it , on the deal that he understood that he 'd struck and he knew that without the bank 's help he would not be able to er proceed with this purchase and operate he business in the way he had wished to . |
| 18 | If he was acquainted with Smith 's work he would naturally have assumed that the French Academy knew it too , and that the point of the competition was to fill in the details of Smith 's proof . |
| 19 | He walked around the table now in an exaggerated pose , and Harry , laughing , said , ‘ If it was n't for spoiling Aunt Ellen 's work I would throw that centrepiece at you . ’ |
| 20 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 21 | I bet if I told those Germans downstairs what I knew about Father 's job they 'd sit up and pay attention . |
| 22 | Had she found my son 's body she would have been disconsolate , certainly too shocked and distressed to talk to you now . |
| 23 | If it would have caught Meredith 's attention she would n't have minded a bone lodging in her gullet , but then there was always the risk he might think she was merely coughing — she could choke for nothing . |
| 24 | And when she showed him Elise 's diary he would collapse like a house built of cards . |
| 25 | The king believed that although Lancaster and his followers claimed to be acting in the king 's name they would in fact create disorder and in any case ‘ it was not their duty to act as judge and do justice ’ . |
| 26 | Yesterday , however , when asked by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , if such a junction were likely to be approved now , Mr Cooksey stated : ‘ Looking at it with today 's knowledge I would have been reluctant to accept it . |
| 27 | If forced down to form a layer near the Earth 's surface it would only be five millimetres thick . |
| 28 | And this brother who married his late brother 's wife he would also take over all that belonged to her , because , you know , all that , it was his dead brother 's , he would take it all over , it would become his the land , the business the property , the mortgage , the debts they would all become the brother who now marries the th th the widow . |
| 29 | But when these small knobs of hard bread landed over the leader 's head he would veer to one side with the rest of the shoal following , to a fish , a split second after . |
| 30 | If Ludo 's club had reached the spieler 's head it would have caved his skull in . |