Example sentences of "would [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had a feeling you 'd make a better recovery without me around . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd prefer the darker colours |
| 3 | I 'd need a bigger size — |
| 4 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 5 | You could say you 'd do a better job next time . |
| 6 | ‘ What the sack did was make me very determined that next time round that I 'd do a better job . |
| 7 | The nomes exchanged meaningful glances , and the kind of meaning they were full of was : She 's fooling herself , but it 'd take a braver nome than me to tell her . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd hoped that after a love scene with you I 'd have no further interest in Rob . |
| 9 | We 'd have a better chance to find reasonably paid jobs in London . |
| 10 | I 'd have a better tan than her at this rate , all the outdoor living I was doing . |
| 11 | If I was The John Dyson , do n't you think I 'd have a better chance of getting theatre seats ? |
| 12 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 13 | If Mrs Marr knew a bit of human anatomy , for example , if she 'd had a medical training or been a PE teacher something like that , she 'd have a better chance of being competent , by which I mean lethal . |
| 14 | If there was flies and rats over every dead thing round here , we 'd have a bigger problem than what we 've got . ’ |
| 15 | She 'd have a natter with him if he were , something she often did on her half-days . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought she 'd have a rougher time than she did , unlike some team members who were like bulls at a gate . |
| 17 | But there are so many C64 soccer sims to choose from you 'd have an easier job selecting winning Spurs team ! |
| 18 | Occasionally we 'd harvest the lighter crops , like sweet potatoes or chillis . |
| 19 | " Get fucking working , you two arms and a heartbeat , " he 'd admonish a slacker . |
| 20 | It has got to the stage where it would be cheaper for stockholding booksellers themselves to buy the books from these cheaper sources — they 'd get a better margin than ordering them from the publisher . |
| 21 | The Me if he had a Metro now he 'd , you 'd get a better deal but they said that |
| 22 | I would get a better , I 'm not saying I 'd get a better shine than that . |
| 23 | Think I 'd get a better example like . |
| 24 | Such objects do not lie beyond our grasp , as the sceptic might suggest ; for we can hope that every member of the set of statements about what would be observed should be conclusively verified , and in such a case there would remain no further possibility that the material object statement should be false . |
| 25 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 26 | ‘ I told him that the Chester option would deliver a better service for the Army and a better deal for the taxpayer . |
| 27 | Unfortunately this also means that non-tax-payers lose out to an extent as they would prefer a higher gross interest rate that is subject to a person 's rate of income tax . |
| 28 | Thus , A. Smith may vote for , or lobby , Senator D. Ricardo to pass a bill reducing the income tax , since he would prefer a lower tax rate with the lower associated level of public goods . |
| 29 | Not very seriously — just a hand up her dress — but they felt they would prefer a better neighbourhood . |
| 30 | If given a choice many workers of both sexes in the " core " leaf of the shamrock would prefer a better balance between time and money and this could bring enormous advantages : greater sharing of child care between the sexes ( which many men now want ) , more opportunities to study or retrain in later life and the possibility of wider participation in public affairs or voluntary work . |