Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would prefer to keep it in natural wood if we can but |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That is possible actually , that he would want to keep it from his neighbourhood . |
| 8 | Obviously he would promise to make it worth your while . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the complex we observed was required for PPT expression we would expect to see it in these cells . |
| 12 | President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies . |
| 13 | He says he would like to see it in another twenty five years time . |
| 14 | ‘ And I think that someone would like to dance it with me , ’ she said , as Herman , lured by the smile , came across and with a ludicrous bow , asked Erika if she would do him the honour of the dance , Erika graciously accepting , to her delight leaving Fritz looking disconsolate and unhappy . |
| 15 | I do n't think anybody appreciates just how much , and I would like to put it on record , how much George does on behalf of the provence a very considerable piece of work ! |
| 16 | So too with exhibiting : somewhere a reader may be able to grow significantly better roses than his or her neighbours , and he or she would like to put it to the test of the show-bench . |
| 17 | I would like to put it in writing that women also like to worry about vast philosophical subjects , such as life , the universe and the price of YSL 's Rouge Intense lipstick . |
| 18 | When I asked them about it later , they said , oh no , we have no intention of doing Anthems of the Nations , perhaps you would like to do it for us . |
| 19 | But Mark would like to do it without the company ! |
| 20 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 21 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 22 | I would like to fill it with herbaceous perennials , which would be suitable ? |
| 23 | I would like to decorate it with bogwood and Java Moss . |
| 24 | I would like to decorate it with bogwood and Java Fern . |
| 25 | You mean you would like to present it in a different way ? |
| 26 | Choice of location for the joint venture company is still up for grabs , the source said , although Hitrail , which is based outside Amsterdam , is lobbying for the Netherlands , while Nynex would like to have it in its own continental back yard in Brussels . |
| 27 | So you wo you would like to have it in a format similar to the the very final |
| 28 | Pretty silly , because you have n't done that piece of work , so perhaps what you would like to do if you would like to follow it with us , then I will give you back , I think I might have your survey here , and you can at least see what we 've been talking about and then on that we can write absent for this piece of work , does that make sense , good . |
| 29 | Can I buy an off the shelf loom ; which side of the engine do I mount an alternator as I would like to raise it above the dynamo position which is too near any deep water ; is it possible to fit halogen headlamps . |
| 30 | Personally I would like to believe it to be peacefully verdant . |