Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 I had , however , already decided that I would do hypothetically as I would in practice for an Uaru tank — collect my own gravel and rocks fro the wild state .
2 In 1982 , I would stand just where that cameraman stood in 1958 and watch an Israeli jet on the same bombing run , attacking the same block of buildings in west Beirut .
3 I would think so , yes I think , I would think so because the bedroom suite , the bed upstairs er of that er suite is quite a good quality bed , you know , it 's only a spring mattress of course it 's not a , it 's not a box thing like we 'd have today , I mean , what we have in our other room , I 've always intended to change it , but never got round to it , but it er just had a spring mattress , but it was good quality of its time
4 I would think so as I would have think so .
5 Fred 's reaction was to ask whether I would move away if I was first given the side .
6 Erm I would go further than erm performance related pay for the cabinet and , and so on , and I would actually put them all on income support erm and see how they could cope !
7 Yes , I would go further than that but that is stating my view as at its minimum .
8 I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time .
9 I would apologise unreservedly if I thought any of them have been a mistake but I do n't believe they have been .
10 I would apologise unreservedly if I thought any of them have been a mistake but I do n't believe they have been .
11 scrap through the remains of erm and got the wire wool and got them down and washed them , what I would like today if you would be so kind as to assist when you 've finished your pottery is to re-label these , now some of you er , have already finished pottery and start straight away , those who only have the finishing touches to do , start half way through the lesson or whatever , but I do intend to give a demonstration now , so , could you gather all round
12 Yesterday he was testing with the team in Estoril where he said : ‘ There is nothing I would like better than to be back in Grand Prix racing . ’
13 That 's what I would write today if I were free to choose .
14 There is another duty also to be considered : and that is the duty which Lord Atkin put in this wise : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour : ’ which I would expand so as to say that there is a duty on every man not to injure his neighbour by his want of reasonable care .
15 So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get .
16 ‘ But , if I were he , I would worry most if they sought to reassure me .
17 ‘ But , if I were he , I would worry most if they sought to reassure me .
18 I have sufficient intellectual control so that my bats only last about three days — his would last sometimes as long as three weeks .
19 That summer her island trip was to Thásos , and I was particularly glad that she would go there as it entails flying to Kaválla , which can be the most desirable flight that a woman can make in Greece .
20 Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian …
21 But of Callanish itself , which Creggan most wanted to know about , she hat refused to speak , saying that the time was not right and she would speak only when it was .
22 She would stay there until Marion and her attendants left for the evening meal in the hall , then come out of her corner , stretch to ease the cramp in her legs , and check the baby again before slipping away out .
23 She would eat fast if she felt like it .
24 Eva was convinced she would get well if she was sensible but she had no intention of spending the rest of her life wrapped in cotton wool .
25 perhaps , yes , most certainly , she would live here if she could afford to do so . …
26 She did not know if it would reach Beatrix , of course , nor whether she would respond even if it did . ’
27 Of course she did n't know anything and even if she did , she would die rather than say , but suppose he guessed she knew something ?
28 She would die rather than roll her eyes and wriggle and blush .
29 She had been weeping , he could see that , but there was no chance that she would cry now because the apartment was filled with Agency staff , four men moving through the small apartment , packing the family 's belongings .
30 In a case that you have settled without litigation within nine months for a relatively modest amount it is unlikely that you would achieve more than four or five chargeable hours in a case where liability was never really disputed .
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