Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF YOU INTEND TO CONTINUE PAYING VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS FOR AT LEAST A FURTHER YEAR FROM APRIL 1989 , WE WOULD PREFER TO COLLECT THEM BY DIRECT DEBIT , MONTHLY . |
| 2 | Israel , on the other hand , would prefer to draw them to the land of their forefathers . |
| 3 | Labour , on the other hand , wants to abolish A-levels and return schools which would prefer to govern themselves to the control of local bureaucrats . |
| 4 | I would prefer to keep it in natural wood if we can but |
| 5 | Where there was a stout tower , they would prefer to pass it by and take what came easily ; and most of those Northumbrian herds and farmers would survive . |
| 6 | Power-hungry people would want to use it as a weapon — which it could very successfully be utilised as — or else as a way of controlling others en masse . |
| 7 | and I am sure that members would want to join me in extending warmest congratulations to him on his well-deserved award . |
| 8 | Yes , I wanted to do a production with Balanchine , but it never happened , and now there is no one I can think I would want to do it with . |
| 9 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 10 | He decided to sell it because he wanted time to look for other things and because whichever organisation bought it would automatically attract people who would want to study it for different scientific reasons . |
| 11 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 12 | That is possible actually , that he would want to keep it from his neighbourhood . |
| 13 | Who would want to run her off the road the way the Audi had done ? |
| 14 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 15 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 16 | Now erm you will already know and I certainly would 've told you on the phone that er you are not responsible for setting the assignments up . |
| 17 | I would 've put them on the same level in all honesty |
| 18 | Obviously he would promise to make it worth your while . |
| 19 | The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ . |
| 20 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 21 | Any proper examination of those models would need to set them in their philosophical and social contexts . |
| 22 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 23 | She would need to buy something for Terry — even if she did n't stay for the wedding . |
| 24 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 25 | He would enjoy expressing himself to her . |
| 26 | And she would enjoy impressing him with what she had managed to find out about Hugh Puddephat so far . |
| 27 | Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms — If the freedoms which Conservative Members say they want to uphold were so widespread , they would not only define freedom in terms of the power to own shares in a company but would seek to defend it in terms of being able to get a job in that company , in a country with getting on for 2.5 million unemployed . |
| 28 | They would seek to liberate themselves with European machinery and European techniques . |
| 29 | If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to . |
| 30 | And on occasion some groups would choose to submit themselves to the Russians as the lesser of two evils when called upon to supply tribute to a third party with whom they were not on good terms . |