Example sentences of "would [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five or six in one part of the hall would create a din , and when Blackshirt stewards approached to eject them scores of Red colleagues would arise to join in the battle . |
| 2 | I would prefer to go in the kop , but failing that I 'd like to try the new East stand . |
| 3 | But Sam said he had a surprise to show her ; and Sarah , obviously put up to it by him , claimed she would prefer to sit in the shade on the terrace and do a water colour of the garden at La Gracieuse . |
| 4 | ‘ I think the average Chief would prefer to do without the glory ! ’ |
| 5 | Research has shown that 80 per cent of the population would prefer to live in the country rather than in a city or urban town . |
| 6 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 7 | Polite noises are all that Mr Kaifu and his colleagues would prefer to make about the ‘ Japan Sea development zone ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no definite plan … if you were going to , you would want to go at the top , and we are still growing . ’ |
| 9 | although he would want to return to the question of public spending savings , he said that the report was a very thorough examination and also exceptionally well written . |
| 10 | And who but a megalomaniac would want to live on the set for a Hammer horror movie ? ’ |
| 11 | What , do you have any idea what sort of social work you would want to do in the end , or not really ? |
| 12 | ‘ No-one in his right mind would want to revert to the horrible inequality of the Victorian era or anything like that , ’ Leo said earnestly . |
| 13 | After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’ |
| 14 | The council was doubtful whether the public would want to pay for the changes . |
| 15 | She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future . |
| 17 | He surprised and alarmed us all by saying that , following the liberalisation of exit controls , he expected that up to 7 million Soviet citizens would want to work in the west . |
| 18 | Bringing his voice under control he suggested it was unlikely that a man of O'Hara 's established reputation would want to appear in the provinces . |
| 19 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 20 | It also accepted that part of AEA would need to remain in the public sector . |
| 21 | In fact , all a person would need to do in the middle of a Darkfall storm would be to remain calm , not touch anything — unless he or she is wearing gloves and wait for the effect to pass . |
| 22 | A drawback to this plan was the weather — that is to say , several large puddles and patches of mud were in evidence — and the fact that one would need to return to the billiard room again at some point to bolt the french windows from the inside . |
| 23 | The pre-1974 local authority budget cycle was like this : each committee of a local council would discuss how much it would need to spend in the coming financial year , beginning in April . |
| 24 | We would need to allow for the following expenses : |
| 25 | The Michelin guide to Perigord will reveal a castle either preserved or in ruins at each of these places , though one would need to go off the map to Mareuil-sur-Belle , as well as Vieux-Mareuil , to identify all the three donjons which Pound speaks of in that vicinity . |
| 26 | The patient should not be allowed to drink too much , as he would need to go to the toilet too often . |
| 27 | The toddler would need to go to the loo baby would have to come too . |
| 28 | Apart from codifying the rights of the individual , a Bill of Rights would iron out the curious anomaly to which Lord Taylor referred and might in addition save time and money because far fewer decisions by British judges would need to go to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 29 | ‘ To catch it they would need to go in the opposite direction first to Thornaby station , where parking is limited . |
| 30 | It was clear that the department would need to move with the times if its pupils were to continue to get good results , and , encouraged by her new Head of Department , Joanne found herself entrusted with the management of a curriculum innovation for the intake year . |