Example sentences of "would [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable young lady at the desk at the head of the room : she had always struck him as the sort of librarian who would prefer to see all the desks in her domain empty and all the books permanently under lock and key . |
| 2 | Afterwards he 'd sworn he would prefer to see any child of his six foot under rather than taken for a nun . |
| 3 | I enjoy the magazine but would prefer to see more of the subscription used for the work of the Institution . |
| 4 | The BBC would prefer to use this fifth network for schools , the Open University , and for further education programmes . |
| 5 | Much has been written about the need for multi-disciplinary approaches but we would prefer to support those who view their research problems without constraints on scientific discipline . |
| 6 | As to what particular countries , in what particular circumstances , I would prefer to let that sleep . |
| 7 | But presumably he had a place to go , and he would prefer to keep that problem to himself . |
| 8 | Border was in good humour at Hove and agreed that he would prefer to attract some better headlines than the ones he has earned after some of his outbursts in the early part of this Ashes tour . |
| 9 | On the whole I would prefer to have that Lanston Monotype 's Cochin than Matthews , but when you get up to , I mean , you have to do that cochin black that 's fantastic in display sizes . |
| 10 | The great majority of lenders say that they see the courts as an unfruitful last resort , and would prefer to make some special arrangements ( smaller but regular payments , say ) as soon as a customer gets into difficulties . |
| 11 | ‘ Yet we would prefer to meet those teams than our rivals in the final run-in . |
| 12 | They were the first to say that they would prefer to trust all this to people who knew something about education . |
| 13 | So I would endeavour to push these thoughts away . |
| 14 | It was to be a French conversation lesson in which the girls would endeavour to answer all Mademoiselle 's simple questions in French . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't think why anybody would want to paint this , ’ said one staff nurse about Radcliffe Infirmary 's Geriatric Ward . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew you would want to set all to rights , ’ Rose said softly , smiling warmly at her . |
| 17 | No sane person would want to kill this baby when there is every chance that it will survive and be part of a loving family . |
| 18 | As it 's turned out , it 's not efficient because the the ray dome spent a tremendous amount of time moving from one country to the other , there 's no doubt about that and before production we would want to see that particular nonsense removed and the whole thing made a lot more efficient , but for one or two development batch ray domes then you know , they 'll just have to learn from that lesson . |
| 19 | Colonies were very handy bargaining counters if a state wanted to concede something less important than territory in Europe , but it was hard to imagine that any country would want to take all of its rivals ' imperial possessions . |
| 20 | because daddy works late you see and I very much daddy would want to go all the way over to Christo |
| 21 | Even a detractor of Caro would want to own this book just for the photography . |
| 22 | erm it does n't , for example , necessarily imply that statements about beauty are merely subjective , or are delusory or are soft headed , or maybe that Eyre would want to say that on another occasion . |
| 23 | erm It does n't for example necessarily imply that statements about beauty are merely subjective , or are delusory or are soft-headed or Though maybe Ayer would want to say that on another occasion . |
| 24 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 25 | Okay , so would it be fair to say some people would want to put that down ? |
| 26 | But you would want to put some pretty strong caveats on the whole , thing . |
| 27 | Who would want to relive such a time of pain ? |
| 28 | Some women would want to link this with the consolidation of black consciousness and with the reclassification of lesbianism as a political and sexual choice rather than a congenital affliction . |
| 29 | In particular , we would want to use such a system for connecting the specialist gardens and the nursery to the plant record system . |
| 30 | There is little doubt that the Serbs would want to retain most of what they now occupy , whereas the Croats would want to return to frontiers drawn up by the late Marshal Tito . |