Example sentences of "i would have [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hated the exams at school I did n't think I 'd have to go all through them again . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid I 'd have to rewire this guitar in a more commonsense manner , so the toggle switch points towards the set of controls in use ( that 's the key , I think ) , and also so that the volumes sit fore and the tones aft , the way Gibsons and Fenders do . |
| 3 | If I 'd become known as the Man In The Pyjamas , I 'd have to wear those pyjamas for the rest of my life ! |
| 4 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
| 5 | I was beginning to think I 'd have to drink this coffee . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Thank goodness Miss Philimore 's not here , or I 'd have to explain this sudden run on roses . ’ |
| 7 | Landing a 7lb wild brown trout — I 'd have to kill that . |
| 8 | I 'd have to spend half an hour calming Dawn down after these attacks . |
| 9 | She said what she said I 'd have to stay all night and all day . |
| 10 | That 's all I 'd have to eat all day . |
| 11 | I 'd have to find some way of talking to her alone . |
| 12 | I mean obviously I 'd have to pay more er for if I want it to end at sixty . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |
| 15 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 16 | If you take any wild animal and keep it in captivity ( I would have to say most wild animals ; some insects might be taken into captivity without any suffering , but if you take vertebrates into captivity there is certainly going to be suffering ) , sometimes the animals will die very quickly after being brought into captivity , and again there is often an effect on the functioning of the immune system because they often succumb to diseases which would not otherwise have killed them . |
| 17 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 18 | I switched off the tape , realizing that I would have to listen another time to find out what the preacher was really saying . |
| 19 | I grumbled because I would have to remain several days more without Pinard . |
| 20 | Soon I would have to try some long-range fixing of this problem . |
| 21 | It looked very much as though I would have to find some other career . |
| 22 | But the doctor said that when I recovered I would have to practise less and go out more often . |
| 23 | My own ferrets are in fact retained for working purposes — but I would have to admit that , yes , they are probably pets too . |
| 24 | I liked to think it was because they thought he 'd failed , that our survival in the mountains had been his humiliation , but I would have to admit this might have been mere wishful thinking . |
| 25 | I was no longer in Brazil , they said , I was in Bolivia and I would have to show some respect . |
| 26 | I was told I would have to have another operation a month later , but first I had to take a course of male hormones called Danazol . |
| 27 | ‘ But if it was the wish of the majority I would have to accept that as a democratic decision . ’ |