Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'd like to come any time … that would be … it would be all right . ’ |
| 2 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 3 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 4 | I hoped we 'd get to meet some time soon . |
| 5 | said that they would prefer to work full time . |
| 6 | Jean-Claude had warned me that Otto would want to spend some time at the gastronomic festival being held in Romorantin . |
| 7 | This , however , is quite distinct from a counselling service , which would seek to offer protected time in which the counsellor and client could focus on a psycho-social problem . |
| 8 | " I would like to ride some time — perhaps one evening when I 've finished work . |
| 9 | He would have to stop some time , and then she would be able to escape . |
| 10 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 11 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 12 | I switched off the tape , realizing that I would have to listen another time to find out what the preacher was really saying . |
| 13 | If the ferry boat was there it would be quicker , if not she would have lost precious time by not taking the direct path to the bridge . |
| 14 | It 's welcome , although we would have prefered full time jobs , but it 's a step in the right direction . |
| 15 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 16 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
| 17 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 18 | The DHAC announced that the exercise would be repeated the following weekend ; although the police warned that they would have to intervene this time , the demonstration went ahead and was extended to forty-eight hours . |
| 19 | The extra cost of a harder and more lasting cutting edge was a wise investment — warriors would have had little time to re-sharpen their blades in the heat of battle ! |
| 20 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
| 21 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 22 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |
| 23 | The preparation of the foundations and the timbers alone would have required considerable time and although C12 is the largest building excavated at the site , the effort required to build many of the others would not have been much less . |