Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] a few " in BNC.

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1 Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered .
2 ‘ I 'd like to explain a few things , ’ she began unsteadily , licking her lips .
3 ‘ But first I 'd like to say a few words about myself .
4 I 'd like to spend a few minutes now trying to pull that together and then go onto how we evaluate these plans , because you 've all produced these and would n't you like to know how good they are and how bad they are ?
5 I 'd like to take a few moments of your time …
6 Come on I 'd like to see a few more hands up here .
7 On Mon , 17 Jan 1994 , wrote : I do n't know who marked him at Elland Rd , but i 'd like to bet a few quid that Wilko puts Fairclough on him ‘ man to man ’ next Sunday .
8 yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire
9 ‘ I expect you 'd like to meet a few people .
10 Knowing how well you respond to suggestions for articles/series , I 'd like to make a few of my own …
11 I 'd have to take a few hundred and we might get one we both agree on .
12 A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’
13 He 's a friend of the family , and although I was surprised to see him , Mum explained that he 'd come to take a few photographs of me for the family album — after all , it 's not every day you become a teenager .
14 Some politicians believe the public would prefer to pay a few pounds more council tax and less in insurance
15 ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back .
16 ‘ For someone who started out by stating he was not here to make judgments , you would appear to have a few already to hand , ’ he said acidly .
17 Doing his best to stay awake , he chatted to Mills until satisfied that the other was convinced of his academic credentials and then , to get rid of him before Syrian George arrived to transcribe the night 's tapes and give the game away , sent him over to see Hurley , who wanted to know if Mills , in the course of his travels in and out of Lebanon for Newsweek , would like to shoot a few pictures for the DEA .
18 Erm , Mr would like to say a few words about the conference overall , er sorry about , yes the conference .
19 Erm I would like to say a few words about the Fire and Rescue Service , er the Fire Cover Review Panel er which rests erm with couple of months before Christmas er it 's first meeting , received a report from the Chief Officer that in restructuring the Fire Service to get better use out of it to er spread the cuts could find savings of up to nine hundred thousand pounds in that process and they are friends in the Labour , Liberal Democrat groups have simply taken the good aspects of that the plus side of it and rejected the side what faces the side anyway .
20 For the record , I would like to clarify a few of Mr.Peavey 's erroneous assertions :
21 At this point the author would like to clarify a few apparently trivial points .
22 I would like to make a few comments , as a mainly urban cyclist who also rides for recreation and covers about 9,000 miles a year .
23 Well I think er what I 'll do because Stuart who 's the C E O rather happens to be with us er I think I 'll ask Stuart if he would like to make a few remarks .
24 We have quite a few in stock and would like to clear a few at least !
25 FOLLOWING your article on sports injuries treatment available at Darlington FC ( Echo February 18 ) we would like to express a few points .
26 He had waited until the sentry reached the tower at the end of his beat , knowing , after watching the man from the bailey , that the guard would pause to exchange a few words with another man-at-arms before they separated to retrace their steps .
27 ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff .
28 I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets .
29 Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education .
30 If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’
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