Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] you would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grainne said slowly , ‘ It is to be expected that you would despair at times , ’ and Bec responded at once , ‘ Oh no . |
| 2 | It 's arranged that you would eat out or in small parties at the hotel , as I thought maybe you 'd want to get away from each other by then … . |
| 3 | Do you actually mean that you want this if that case were proven that you would want the regional shopping centre in the new settlement ? |
| 4 | I 've explained that you 'd like to see something of his island . ’ |
| 5 | It 's argued that you 'd need at least a force of eighty thousand troops , that 's in Bosnia . |
| 6 | Why ca n't we could , as I suggest it would be slightly vague and , and the fact that the , the report shows the collection date , we could say the date it 's going to be collected cos you 'd get them to go through all |
| 7 | But again , see again cos we 're not following the actual script , the picking up and pinpointing people mentioned in earlier conversations , which you would 've done if you 'd 've gone back to the planning the future . |
| 8 | Colonel Stok said , ‘ I would be obliged if you would speak more quietly . ’ |
| 9 | I enclose a wooden varnished toy which I would be obliged if you would examine and test under the above Regulations . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd be obliged if you would cease to point that antique at me ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , they can just think again , ’ replied Rachel hotly , ‘ and if anyone says anything to you on those lines I would be obliged if you would put them straight . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But I would be obliged if you would come straight to the point , Captain Carew . ’ |
| 13 | But , ’ she added pungently , ‘ I 'd be obliged if you 'd make it clear to your Formula One buddies that you and I are just good friends ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I intend to make something of meself , so I 'd be obliged if you 'd treat me with more respect . ’ |
| 15 | If you should hear from her I 'd be obliged if you 'd let me know . ’ |
| 16 | The floor is highly polished and you would keep slipping over . ’ ‘ |
| 17 | ‘ And I would be honoured if you would bear my children . ’ |
| 18 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 19 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 20 | ‘ Since you had yourself a very good motive for murdering him , I should have thought that you would wish to help me identify anyone else who had . ’ |
| 21 | I would n't have thought that you 'd have any numerical erm |
| 22 | Right well you see I would have thought if you 'd have done it there , that would have been , but no , but see when you |
| 23 | ‘ At the beginning of the year , I 'd have laughed if you 'd have told me we 'd be in this situation , ’ said Favre . |
| 24 | Well , she come out of that there shed : well , you would have laughed if you 'd ha' seen har . |
| 25 | See and all that screaming and all that aggravation could have been avoided if you 'd have known you were going to get in . |
| 26 | Of course , I might have known that you 'd have some clever way of dealing with everything , though . |
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