Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [conj] would [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
| 2 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
| 3 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 4 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 5 | First , the hon. Gentleman is terrified of saying anything that would upset his trade union paymasters ; secondly , he is afraid to do anything that would remind the electorate of the chains that bind his party to those paymasters — the bosses of the trade unions . |