Example sentences of "[art] [indef pn] would " in BNC.
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| 31 | No one would suggest that he rivals Sobers as the greatest of all-rounders , for , although he has taken more wickets , his batting has been much less consistent and his Test average is some twenty-three points lower than Sobers ' . |
| 32 | With the emergence of Muhammad Ali , no one would ever see the ring the same way again , nor even the fighters themselves ; a TV go , a purse and a sheared lip would never be enough ; and a title was just a belt unless you did something with it . |
| 33 | In the transient world of politics and government such stability is exceptional , although in the world of business no one would consider unusual such partnerships between a chairman and chief executive . |
| 34 | He pressed the bell and waited , half hoping that it would n't ring or no one would come . |
| 35 | Still , no one would notice at 8 a.m . |
| 36 | No one would ever cut pieces off her while she slept . |
| 37 | In a place like this we could scream for hours and no one would hear us . ’ |
| 38 | Marie thought of her own mother with her frumpy clothes and ageing , lined face : no one would have guessed that she was only forty-two . |
| 39 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 40 | No one would want to swap the full-length Blue Velvet , Raging Bull or Dead Ringers for the three-minute version . |
| 41 | If so , no one would ever have dared to tease him about his middle name . |
| 42 | ‘ No one would come . |
| 43 | No one would question that . |
| 44 | He considered , as he read , that no one would know that his penis had begun to lift when he was half way through the writing of the paragraph . |
| 45 | We 've already talked of anxious horses , and how no one would have one for preference . |
| 46 | No one would ever go up to a man and comment on what 's in his trousers ! |
| 47 | I know that he kicked and punched me ; I know he told me this was what I wanted , that no one would ever love me , and this was all I was fit for ; and I know he raped me . |
| 48 | This was achieved by a reduction in the weight : within the country a coin with a silver value of three drachmas was officially valued at four , and clearly no one would export it or they would lose 25 per cent of its value . |
| 49 | No one would know where he was . |
| 50 | When she last flew into London no one would have noticed the elfin-formed teenager drift through customs . |
| 51 | No one would ever have looked for him there . |
| 52 | Next time Sam rolled the curtain up , Harry would have drifted quietly out of here , I should think , and no one would ever have known he 'd been here . |
| 53 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 54 | No one would start looking for me for hours ; not until after dark . |
| 55 | ‘ They made turnover projections that no one would have managed to meet , ’ reflects Sue Carroll . |
| 56 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 57 | No one would , she told herself , no one with any feelings . |
| 58 | In The New Age of 5 November , for example , she complained of the influence of Les Chants de Maldoror ( the book that was Modigliani 's constant companion ) : ‘ No one would deny the mischief done by Maldoror during recent years ’ . |
| 59 | ‘ No one would blame you if you wanted to keep a low profile . ’ |
| 60 | Yes , or did once when it was important to him professionally , when there was still the lurking doubt that no one would call any more to offer him a great new role , an insecurity built on the fact they no one did call in the first fourteen years of his professional life . |