Example sentences of "it would [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I do n't mind paying you , it 'd cost me that for a bloody taxi . |
| 2 | People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone . |
| 3 | Constance was the only adult to whom she would dream of divulging Sam 's plot , since whether Constance approved or not , she would not be difficult about it : clearly , she did not approve , either because the act would be an invasion of property and privacy or because it would land them all in trouble . |
| 4 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 5 | Secondly , the Bank gave notice that it would make its own forecasts of daily flows in the market so as to be ready to provide assistance but that when the need arose the houses would have to offer bills for sale to the Bank at prices of their own choosing . |
| 6 | However , erm this is the first chance I 've had to speak today so I ca n't take all the blame of the er , of the , of the late start , erm I do n't know whether it would make it any easier to the my colleagues on my right or my left erm to accept the Liberal resolution . |
| 7 | In South Antrim , the constituency of the present writer , no satisfaction was received on the matter until an exasperated meeting of my own constituency party presented the Westite Official Unionists with an ultimatum that either ‘ UUUC ’ appear on the literature and posters of their candidate or it would present its own rival one . |
| 8 | ‘ And you did n't want her to know about the letters because it would rake it all up again ? ’ |
| 9 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 10 | At least it would give her more time to recover . |
| 11 | She looked at him reflectively , realising it would give her more time to cope with the task that concerned him . |
| 12 | At least it would give them some idea , at least they would now understand how things were . |
| 13 | Eileen had been horrified , sure it would give them both their death of cold to let the fresh air in at night . |
| 14 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 15 | He did n't want to drag them , because even though it would give him more room there would be a risk of noise which might attract the attention of the housekeeper . |
| 16 | ‘ It would give me some sort of starting point . ’ |
| 17 | If we knew what price were at then it would give me more er confidence to know where we stand and how to go about it . |
| 18 | But at least it would give us some because you could say well yes , there has been progress , erm primary school might have said |
| 19 | At least it would give us some sort of contact . |
| 20 | There is nothing new in the notion that if discrimination was replaced with a better understanding of the needs of older consumers , it would reap its own rewards . |
| 21 | It would remind them that young men who carry knives and youngsters who take them to school may lose their temper and find that one stab is enough to kill a school mate or a police officer . |
| 22 | But I do n't think it would do me any harm to develop some more organizational skills because mos most jobs require them . |
| 23 | It would do us all a lot of good . |
| 24 | Did n't do , did n't think it would do you any good did we ? |
| 25 | I once heard a sermon in which the preacher defended atomic weapons on the ground that Satan would never use them because it would hasten his own destruction ! |
| 26 | He says that it would cost him more money if he went the other way . |
| 27 | It would win him few friends in the offices of Century , few cosy evenings with his subordinates in the clubland of Mayfair . |
| 28 | Slovenia announced on June 17 that if the customs war intensified it would employ its own customs officials , but it reportedly backed down after a threat of direct action by the FEC . |
| 29 | Hell , it would put us all out of pain . |
| 30 | It could abandon its isolation and make deals with other parties — in which case it would contradict its own anti-party rhetoric and make itself indistinguishable from other parties . |