Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've played against him and Wasim in county cricket and , believe me , if they had been cheating I would have known . |
| 2 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |
| 3 | That stuff they 're giving you would kill a dozen cats . |
| 4 | All they w all they 're saying they would do is restore it back to what it was . |
| 5 | Erm so right , if you get something then where you 're integrating I 'd like to sort of have a little practice this week of Have you done much practice of differentiating a product ? |
| 6 | She stopped , then said fiercely , ‘ If you 're thinking she would have treated your father like that you 're quite wrong . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But I suppose you 're thinking you 'd like to kiss it ? |
| 8 | If he 'd been camping he 'd have chosen somewhere more comfortable . |
| 9 | If anything had been moving they would have seen it immediately : and where the turf ended , the sky began . |
| 10 | That 's why when I hear my daughter talking about getting fifteen or twenty K a year I 'm going it would pay me two or three years for God 's sake . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying it 'll come out right , but that 's what I 'm saying I would do it . |
| 12 | Yes but er i i the thing is , if he said he would be playing he would come round here . |
| 13 | Bonanza might be hoping I 'd produce a rabbit for him , but he was n't asleep while he waited . |
| 14 | But it or if I were to be thinking I 'd say , Is n't he . |
| 15 | And Les said he 'd be sitting here I 'd say Duane ooh ooh should I be working he 'd say . |
| 16 | He said he was sort of just miles away , sit there he was you know looking out to space and I 'd say Duane ooh should I be working he 'd say . |
| 17 | Er I think tha that we need to look at why there is such a significant difference in profitability , between the bridge and P Way , who are making what would appear to be a reasonable amount , er and the other four sections . |
| 18 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 19 | Oh I like if I 'd have known you were going I 'd have got you to get me the nut ones . |
| 20 | I am sure that if the gentlemen had seen what they were getting they would have changed their minds . |
| 21 | ‘ People were saying they would pay £1.50 for a copy , ’ he said . |
| 22 | At the peak of Clinton-inspired euphoria early this spring , yields had dipped to 6.7% and pundits were insisting they would near 6% . |
| 23 | It was particularly odd as Frank was chained in the middle of the trio so when Terry and Tom were talking they would do so over Frank 's head , almost as if he was n't there . |
| 24 | Shares in National Express opened with a modest 6p premium at 171p , a sharp disappointment to investors who were hoping they would roar off to around the £2 level . |
| 25 | ‘ The trouble is they 'll send for him when he is eighteen , and we were hoping he 'd win a scholarship to go on to University . |
| 26 | ‘ We were hoping you would tell us . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Frankly , John , we were hoping you 'd have more to show for your German trip ’ |
| 28 | You were hoping she would leave . |
| 29 | She is becoming Burma 's most famous non-person , much to the anger of the military , who were hoping she would fade away as a political force . |
| 30 | I 'd kind of been hoping they 'd take the cuffs off me altogether by now but I suppose they 're thinking that the body in the shaft does n't prove anything by itself , and that Andy could still be dead , or he could be alive and he — or somebody else — could have kidnapped Halziel and Lingary to provide cover for me . |