Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I do n't know if it 's worth speaking now , I , I 'd like to second everything that has said , and what the auditors have said erm , in the management arrangement . |
| 2 | I 'd like to second that petition . |
| 3 | Yes Chairman I 'd like to second that and just to erm say very briefly that er erm I , I very much welcome the report and the speed with which the Chief Officer is seen to have addressed most of the issues there are one or two bits that , that were of course were in fact posters , posters er be dealt with erm I have to say I still have some concern erm that the Chief Fire Officer and his team are so well supported on a very broad front on their decision making and their professionalism and yet on other matters of sound advice which has been given by er who are turned aside and just simply not given the proper consideration that they should have as in that er respect Chairman and I , I , I have some concern , erm it , it would not surprise me indeed if the , Her Majesty 's Inspector of er er brigades , when he comes round himself , has some comment to make on that since I think he 's expectations as well are almost as high as mine is . |
| 4 | I 'd like to second Anne 's congratulations really , to the , to the men who deal with wasps nest , because they 're very usually men who come along ! |
| 5 | ‘ I used to enjoy the way you never knew what you 'd come across next . ’ |
| 6 | Scotland , on it 's own , would fall into sixth place . |
| 7 | The difference between the two kinds of training is not as great as would appear at first sight because it turns out that task training has in common with skill training an emphasis on the perceptual side of human functioning . |
| 8 | I would like to first call , in alphabetical order , Robert |
| 9 | Dr Frank Weymouth Sailing Club , I would like to second the proposition that Messrs continue in office . |
| 10 | Chairman I would like to second and reserve my decision . |
| 11 | I would like to second Mrs 's motion . |
| 12 | " Mr. James Christie intimated to the Meeting that he would move at next meeting that the Members get up a Flower and Vegetable Show sometime during this season . " |
| 13 | His mother was in , seated at her kitchen desk and gloomily going over the month 's bills — her Persian lamb coat made the Hudson 's Bay bill look enormous , and , at the rate she was paying it off , it would take until next Easter to clear it . |
| 14 | When the pressmen started on sheet C , the compositor washed and distributed type from the two B formes just finished with ( keeping the running titles safely , though ) ; he prepared inner and outer D , which the pressmen would call for next , fitted the B running titles neatly in place , and again got on with something else . |
| 15 | Indeed the first part of the book is by far the more revealing since his recent conquests are so much more celebrated than are the tales of his friendship form an early age with John Emburey , his innings of 87 at the age of 18 for the Ilford 1stXI against Trevor Bailey 's Westcliff and his early days with Essex when he would arrive at 2nd XI matches on a moped , his cricket bag strapped to his back . |
| 16 | Dr Runcie said the new rules ‘ tried to steer a course between what I described as legislative schism and a measure which would reduce to second class membership those who find themselves unable to recognise women priests ’ . |
| 17 | The offer would seem at first sight to be an extremely generous one , but those who make it know it can not be accepted . |
| 18 | The rift between the two brothers recalls the one between Cain and Abel and would seem at first to be heading for a similar conclusion . |
| 19 | It would seem at first sight feasible to calculate this size in a way which reflected precisely the actual use for each category . |
| 20 | The intuitions most relevant to a study of meaning would seem at first sight to be intuitions about what things mean . |
| 21 | His consumption of nuclear waste would seem at first to be an ideal solution to the problems of both Martians and humans , but of course there is a hitch . |
| 22 | Noreen would come on first as before with her song — and then be joined by ‘ Mary ’ who would take the melody while Noreen harmonised and then Maria would conclude with a solo — usually ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ — and they would finish together with ‘ Let Him Go Let Him Tarry ’ , another of the O'Neil family songs which both knew backwards . |
| 23 | Stirling called all the men together on the ground and promised that modifications would be made , but that jumping would continue at first light the following morning . |
| 24 | Other affluent Western countries , which the migrants would accept as second best , wo n't take them either . |
| 25 | Other affluent Western countries , which the migrants would accept as second best , wo n't take them either . |