Example sentences of "and [pron] would [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when you are entering into a contract , and I wonder if you could send this to the to the chairman er your letter er of erm contract because to have a contract which can be varied in its cost always upwards is a very dangerous contract and I would interested to see the contract that is supplied which does not control price . |
| 2 | We 'd have white tie and tails to say Mass instead of vestments and you 'd all be answering ‘ OK ’ instead of ‘ Amen ’ ! |
| 3 | I would hang them all round the school and you 'd all get stuck to them and that would be the end of it . |
| 4 | ‘ And who would that be ? ’ he asked , narrowing his eyes . |
| 5 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
| 6 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 7 | Without these individuals — some named and many not — there would be no Henley Golf Club and we would all be the poorer . |
| 8 | Every so often , some minor disaster would occur on the Waaf site and we would all have to suffer the consequences because the perpetrator would never own up . |
| 9 | It would be a fair and just arrangement , and we would all be happy . |
| 10 | Those who could not leave work in time could catch the 19:46 and we would all travel back together . |
| 11 | We threw up our hands and bargained , and agreed that he would find two more travellers and we would each pay 200 bhat . |
| 12 | And if I got summat Annie wanted — you know , like a little necklace or a whistle or summat , I 'd just give it to her , and Mum would say what a polite boy I was , and Dad would smile at me , and we 'd all be happy . |
| 13 | ‘ Patsy Pill would have a fit if she found out , and we 'd all be at defaulters ’ . ' |
| 14 | Sometimes when we 19 were feeling low someone might say , ‘ I 've had a visit , look what I 've got , ’ sort of thing , and we 'd all have a nice time . |
| 15 | ‘ Then you could move over there and we 'd all be happy . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ One look from those eyes when someone had displeased him and we 'd all be walking around on eggshells . |
| 17 | Fenella told me , breathily and all excited , that they were going to operate and we 'd all have to leave , but it was all right really because Salome 's mum ( who was ever so nice ) had turned up having been called by Frank and was in there talking to the surgeons . |
| 18 | ‘ At the end of the day the politicians could decide not to give us it , and we 'd all look pretty silly if people pointed to 18 February and said ‘ but it was confirmed back then ’ . ’ |
| 19 | At some point that day , everyone would look at that noticeboard and they would all understand the implications behind what he had done . |
| 20 | He would start the evening in his quiet , sometimes moody , Kansas drawl and would end up in ranting fashion , telling them all that things would be different when he and the rest of ‘ new ’ Hollywood were running things , and they would all be clapped in irons , which was hardly the brightest way to inspire confidence at a time when you were seeking film money . |
| 21 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 22 | Anyway they would land down at our place most weekends , because we used to take the Darlington and Stockton Times , and they would all be smoking their pipes and talking , asking , ‘ What hast thou fresh , now ’ and catching up on the comings and goings of Baldersdale . |
| 23 | Xanthe , however , alarmed by the departure of her new-found friend , was practically clinging to Mrs Young and with an echo of the earlier hysteria was saying that she could n't possibly sleep in the private car , she would have nightmares , she would be too scared to stay , she was sure whoever had uncoupled the car before would do it again in the middle of the night , and they would all be killed when the Canadian crashed into them , because the Canadian was still there behind us , was n't it , was n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ Every eye in that room will be on the royal couple and they would all love to ask questions but they 're far too polite and obviously far too diplomatic . ’ |
| 25 | Well ’ — he choked now with laughter — ‘ I would go in among those pigs and they would all start scratching a hole and there I would be standing on a clapboard looking down and nearly sick with the smell . |
| 26 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |
| 27 | Lugh was going to fool Medoc very neatly , and they would all eat their words . |
| 28 | The following Brownies are all from the 5th Elgin ( St Sylvester 's ) Pack , Scotland and they would all like pen-pals . |
| 29 | She had only to hide at one of these places and wait , and they would all come along sooner or later . |
| 30 | One more night here and they would all go back to Paris and she would go home to England . |