Example sentences of "we would only [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe we 'd only do half an hour before sloping off but , bit by bit , we were able to put a set together . |
| 2 | And er when I left , about seventy two , they were still every year they come to try and get rid of this cost of living , but we did er er concede that we 'd only move annually . |
| 3 | We 'd only see it once a year if it stayed where it was . |
| 4 | Er , I 've put a cloth on the top of it cos we 'd only put it in on the Tuesday and it was wet through on the top ! |
| 5 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 6 | We settled down to nine channels of T.V. and a tour of the room-service menu , ordering things we 'd only read about — pastrami on rye ; blue-jack cheese ; sourdough bread and grits and black-eyed beans . |
| 7 | We 'd only need one . |
| 8 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 9 | And we we see we 'd only have these small areas see . |
| 10 | And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching . |
| 11 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 12 | Equally , said Alison Fellows , we would only want Bordeaux wine from Bordeaux . |
| 13 | But Eleanor Young , chairman of Darlington Community Health Council , said : ‘ We would only want to know if the hospital was going to have any effect on NHS provision . |
| 14 | Even if we were to include the value attributed to armaments in PP4 we would only arrive at a total of 21,019 . |
| 15 | The Policyholder may move to a guest house or hotel but we would only pay reasonable accommodation costs , commensurate with the standard of the existing accommodation . |
| 16 | If the weather was fine and we wanted to be out in the mountains , then we would only work in the evening . |
| 17 | My brother and I used to have a joke — we saw how hard our father worked — that we would only consider medicine if we could become specialists in venereal diseases , because we would never have to get up in the middle of the night and we would never be out of work . |
| 18 | ‘ But we would only consider them if they were logical , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 20 | Is it any coincidence that pharmaceutical companies have found medicines ( which we have to keep taking and paying for ) rather than a vaccine ( which we would only have to take once ) ? |
| 21 | ‘ We would only call off the strike if Mrs Falconer was given assurances that her job would be saved . ’ |
| 22 | We would only add this . |
| 23 | Headquarters who 'd decreed that we would only get work by |
| 24 | He did say that with the mass attendance at around about nine hundred that we would only get one priest |
| 25 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 26 | We would only need cover for centre-half and of course we have big — bad — jon for that ! |
| 27 | We w er we would , we would only need to pay for them at the rate where they lived . |
| 28 | We would only need to witness a marked increase in trade and there will certainly be an increase in demand why do you think trade has increased ? and trade is n't a necessary condition it 's just that trade has tended to grow at the same time as erm as demand is growing . |
| 29 | Alec and I realized that we would only endanger our lives by trying to extract Father from where he lay and make a night climb with him . |