Example sentences of "[verb] what would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike his team mate , who has what would be a Rug Nightmare except that he 's Italian and so it 's not . |
| 2 | We can describe what would happen in an elaboration of Cairns-Smith 's description of his hypo experiment . |
| 3 | Thus , in the case of Parchment , the police committed what would have been a number of breaches of the rules had the accused been in the police station , but , simply because the supposed infractions had taken place before his arrival , the crown court held that nothing wrongful had occurred . |
| 4 | The two Libyan nationals accused by the US and UK of the Libya bombing are alleged to have committed what would amount to offences under the Montreal Convention . |
| 5 | ‘ Gradually I got to know what would work , it caught the mood , the shadows held up and the grain was soft , it was like a pastel painting . |
| 6 | I 'd like to know what would happen then . ’ |
| 7 | And again and again , on my side , I wanted to know what would happen to us . |
| 8 | ‘ If this is what it 's like to be under your protection , I 'd bloody well like to know what would happen if I were n't ! ’ |
| 9 | They came to Corman 's office to establish what would become a lifelong , though intermittent , friendship between them and Nicholson . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's still a lot that can be done with that before we get to having to establish what would effectively be private sector mini-Audit Commissions ’ , said . |
| 11 | The Institute of Employment Research at Warwick University recently carried out a number of macroeconomic simulations to discover what would happen if Britain installed sufficient microelectronic technology to improve its rate of productivity growth by 1 per cent relative to its competitors . |
| 12 | Could I be before you answer that question , you did ask , did n't you , ask him to be hypothetical and say what would he say in a year 's time , and I think what |
| 13 | When one quiet weekend this February Mr Grosz left the country on a short trip to Switzerland , little did he know what would await him on his return . |
| 14 | Otherwise I would have been sent back to my country and I do not know what would have happened to us . ’ |
| 15 | If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches . |
| 16 | If Uncle had n't been there to support me I do not know what would have become of me . |
| 17 | The difference is that we did n't know then what we know now , we did n't know what would become of us ’ ; or ‘ We were so young and spilling over with everything inside ’ . |
| 18 | We ca n't know what would have happened if it had tried something else , nor ( and this is important ) what would have happened if someone else had tried the original solution . |
| 19 | I do n't know what would have been if I 'd stayed . |
| 20 | I do n't know what would happen . |
| 21 | She did n't know what would happen , she did n't know what was happening now . |
| 22 | Do you know what would happen to us if we got caught with this stuff ? |
| 23 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 24 | For him to brush it off in such a way — I do n't know what would make him say things like that , he 's the sort of man I just would n't expect to have … |
| 25 | Simone 's gran , Gwen Turner , said : ‘ If it had n't been for the prompt action of these two ambulancemen I do n't know what would have happened . |
| 26 | She added that she did n't know what would become of the family now that her brother was no longer around to take care of them . |
| 27 | Well I do n't know what would have happened to me . |
| 28 | The model behaves so much like the real thing that the Berkeley scientists believe they can predict what would happen to the building during an earthquake . |
| 29 | I shall be drawing a considerable sum in a few days but you must know how it is , travelling the country as we old soldiers do … thank you … ten pounds will be quite sufficient … and you must let me spend some more of it in your excellent company … that evening 's entertainment we enjoyed together , Mr Wood , ’ his voice rose in the small hallway and the other guests and servants indoors and out strained noticeably to catch what would surely be the eloquent testimonial of a compliment , ‘ was one of the , shall we say , most boisterous and wise , a rare combination , Mr Landlord , I have spent , whether in London , in Europe or in and out of ships and foreign postings in a long lifetime . |
| 30 | One wonders what would have become of Steven Morrissey if fate had n't dealt him his measure of success . |