Example sentences of "would [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather not talk to the guests much beforehand simply because I find it works better just to say hello , and thanks for coming , and leave it at that . |
| 2 | I 'd rather not go to Liverpool ! |
| 3 | If you 're confronted on the phone by someone you 'd rather not speak to , or asked to name a price or give information you 're not ready to give , then always ask if you can call back later . |
| 4 | ‘ It could , but I 'd much rather talk to you now . |
| 5 | Nor did Gillian , who talked just as if she 'd only just run to the signpost and back . |
| 6 | But I 'd still rather talk to him myself . ’ |
| 7 | Now I know that I 'm going and Alma 's going , but we 've yet to decide I would rather just go to the crematorium |
| 8 | Any list of common misspellings would most likely have to be collected by hand . |
| 9 | I would so much like to be wise , |
| 10 | One of the better songs , ‘ Sweet Sentiment 's Pet ’ , showed enormous flair for improvising irresistibly improbable rhymes : The final verse , a sort of policy recommendation , advocated the remedy that parliament would so readily agree to in the ensuing months ; one that was ‘ cheapest and quickest and best ’ : |
| 11 | ‘ The NRA would just not respond to the access problems while we had the lease , ’ said Robin . |
| 12 | He spoke noncommittally , and Lydia understood that there were things of which Beuno would not yet speak to her . |
| 13 | Some of honest and good heart would not even speak to a Christian as late as the mid-third century , by which date the Christian story and way of life had become well known , because they suspected them of enormities . |
| 14 | He would not even speak to her . |
| 15 | It is the resulting harm ( death ) which still dominates , as is evident from the fact that many forms of conduct fall within the law of manslaughter if death happens to result , whereas they would not even amount to a serious offence if a consequence less than death had ensued . |
| 16 | They work incredibly long hours with no day of rest for a monthly income which in the United States would not even amount to a basic daily wage . |
| 17 | Matthews feels that X-rays could do the job more cheaply and safely — the shells would not even need to be opened up . |
| 18 | It would not even occur to most businessmen that the criteria the Revenue employs can be more favourable than those the DSS uses . |
| 19 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 20 | Every community will have its secrets , and every individual in it will have views that they would not normally express to others , but do express to the researcher . |
| 21 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 22 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 23 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 24 | The intention of the Merger Regulation was to introduce a ‘ one-stop , merger control , described by Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan as a ‘ system whereby , in the case of smaller mergers , they would be subject only to national regulation … while in the case of the really large mergers which have implications for the whole Community , the European Commission would have the power to intervene , and companies would not normally need to be concerned about the national regulatory authorities ’ . |
| 25 | Jen Longbottom says its a race for the country lovers … they try to take people to a part of the country where they would not normally get to … it 's not a race for softies … |
| 26 | This would not normally apply to emergency resolutions . |
| 27 | Also , Mrs Valerie Riches will speak on the content of many of the sex-education programmes used in British schools , which in practice offer only a moral sexual instruction , and subject the young to ideas which would not normally occur to them . |
| 28 | I wonder whether Christ would not rather go to Calvary again than to suffer the unfaithfulness of some of his friends . |
| 29 | Who would not rather own to theft and deception within the Church 's writ , rather than put his neck into the sheriff 's noose for murder ? |
| 30 | To be completely consistent perhaps Gandhi would not only have to be opposed to the killing of animals for food , but also to the killing of disease-carrying rats , mosquitoes , and venomous snakes , and those forms of plant life that are essential to a vegetarian diet . |