Example sentences of "would [vb infin] well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | And I 'd say well if there are two parents there whether it 's whether they 're married or whether they 're not , the parents are there together , it was shared equally . |
| 6 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 7 | Filippo would know better than me if either of them have been here . ’ |
| 8 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 9 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 10 | I think they would do well if playing with O'leary or Faircoulgh . |
| 11 | In restaurants — his tastes were no more sophisticated now than before , but occasionally he would do better than the Corner House — he would still order at the top of his voice , still hoping to be recognized . |
| 12 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 13 | He argued that families would do better if their members were altruistic . |
| 14 | She suggested they would do better if they only sat five exams and spent the rest of their time on work which could give them a much broader education than just swotting for more GCSEs . |
| 15 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 16 | For my part , I think Benedict would do better if she does not saddle him with it . ’ |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman would do better if he chose his targets with more precision . |
| 18 | That is , whether spaced out advertising — the " drip " — over a long period would work better than heavy advertising , the " burst " , concentrated into a short space of time . |
| 19 | I decided that things would work better if I upgraded by adding a 1 Meg expanded memory board to give 2 Meg of RAM . |
| 20 | Yesterday he was testing with the team in Estoril where he said : ‘ There is nothing I would like better than to be back in Grand Prix racing . ’ |
| 21 | As a result , one of the committee lost his temper and told Filmer he was the scum of the earth and no one in racing would sleep well until he was warned off which was the number one priority of the world 's racing authorities . ’ |
| 22 | Clients would fare better if they examined profit figures , checked track records . |
| 23 | He was led to believe that he would receive better than a university education with Mr. Wickstead as his personal tutor . |
| 24 | Eva was convinced she would get well if she was sensible but she had no intention of spending the rest of her life wrapped in cotton wool . |