Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’ |
| 2 | But then he se he seemed then as if he 'd think twice before he 'd do anything when he used to come in you know I er I said to him I said look we used to call him in them days you know , now what did you that for ? |
| 3 | She 'd stay there until they docked in Ibiza if necessary . |
| 4 | ‘ Well that 's the case anyway : whether it would stand up in court you 're the lawyer you 'd know better than I but we 're not talking about courts and proof just leaks and public opinion . |
| 5 | In bed before I went to sleep I fantasized about London and what I 'd do there when the city belonged to me . |
| 6 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
| 7 | Sixty of them and put them out and make them into nice little lines and that and see what things you 'd have to multiply together to make twelve or what numbers you 'd multiply together cos it 'd be so many sets of like four sets of three or three sets of four . |
| 8 | I promised I 'd ring home as soon as I arrived yesterday , but somehow … with all the mix-up … |
| 9 | ‘ We did n't know they 'd run away before you 'd finished with them , ’ one of the soldiers was grumbling sullenly . |
| 10 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
| 11 | I 'd run away if I could , but I 've no money of my own ; they do n't even give me an allowance , but pay all my bills for me . |
| 12 | He was mortally disappointed when it was officially declared an accident and there 's nothing he 'd like better than to find some excuse to start ferreting round and upsetting everyone with his ‘ interrogations ’ . ’ |
| 13 | There 's nothing they 'd like better than a drama like this just before the race , and do n't think Dara or her escort will have kept their mouths shut ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There 's nothing I 'd like better than to stay here and make love to you all day , but I think after breakfast we should get back to the palazzo . ’ |
| 15 | She did n't see why people were supposed to work hard if you ground their noses ; it seemed more likely that they 'd work hard if you promised to grind their noses if they did n't . |
| 16 | He 'd sleep later when he returned to the track , curled awkwardly on the back seat of the car under an overcoat . |
| 17 | The ability to hear what you hoped you 'd hear rather than what the other person is saying . |
| 18 | But you 'd die rather than face it again . ’ |
| 19 | I have worked for you in all ways practically from the moment you were born and I 'd die rather than see you throw yourself away on the likes of her ; for she is scum , and I repeat it , scum . |
| 20 | She had felt she 'd die rather than give him the satisfaction , but now she 'd have to be clever , for by implication she had denigrated his power and his commitment to protect her . |
| 21 | She 'd die rather than let this happen ! |
| 22 | ‘ No matter what he says or does , no matter what happens to force me towards him — I 'd die rather than marry Damian Flint ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd die rather than marry you ! ’ |
| 24 | He said he 'd call again as soon as he heard the result of the new X-ray , but not to worry about it , it 's just the extra fuss they make when there 's a doctor involved . |
| 25 | A glance at the list of some of the most popular privatisations shows that , in most cases , you 'd have more than doubled your shares when they were issued and held on to them . |
| 26 | But if , if we er so , so we could actually produ you know , plot this over time because we 've , I hope we 'd have more than one er weekly programme . |
| 27 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd leave now if I could afford it . |
| 29 | I 'd go there if I were you . |
| 30 | And I 'd go further than that . |