Example sentences of "[vb pp] we would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 2 | If he had n't been so badly injured we would n't have even attempted a rescue until later , but he was in a bad way , so we had no choice . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've never said we would n't carry on , ’ Peter says . |
| 4 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ We have never said we would never sign up to a charter , but we are convinced this proposal would mean Community interference in areas like industrial relations law which are much better dealt with in Community countries . |
| 6 | What are called ‘ proofs for the existence of God ’ are not attempts to show that there must be a divine kind of thing ( we have no concept of a divine kind of thing ) , they just seek to show that if and when all other questions were answered we would still be left with this mystery : and this is what we shall call ‘ God ’ . |
| 7 | I could n't go out without him because we 'd agreed we 'd both do our share . |
| 8 | ‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here . |
| 9 | ‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here . |
| 10 | Well I think she would have told us would n't she ? |
| 11 | They must have guessed we would n't look under the shrine . |
| 12 | If I had cooperated we 'd both have got the rather high score of $300 . |
| 13 | I 'm ten years older now , and in retrospect I see that if Francesca had lived we would n't have been right for each other . ’ |
| 14 | Heaven knows who it was who set their mind on heading for that pointy wee soul but , like most hill-walkers , once a route is planned we would sooner see the laws of physics change before our itinerary did . |
| 15 | Until it 's completely perfected we 'd rather keep it quiet , ’ the Governor said , glaring once again at the other man . |
| 16 | Again , on a truth-conditional theory of semantics , those meanings can not be captured we would not want to say that B 's assertion in ( ii ) was false if B had simply misidentified A and assumed mistakenly that A was a male superior ( that would make truths relative to whomsoever they are addressed ) . |