Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As the house becomes more and more popular , we are attracting quite a select clientele — some of whom I feel would be on yours and every other society guest list . " |
2 | When it came to the interview he was somewhat nervous and on the defensive ( not being an old hand at it ) , and while I did my best to make him feel at ease , I felt it incumbent to put questions about the Roman Catholic Church 's teachings on divorce , homosexuality , abortion , celibacy , etc. , the answers to which I believed would be of interest to Catholics and non-Catholics alike . |
3 | I hid it in my shirt pocket , which I believed would be like its warm nest . |
4 | If you have any old photographs which you think would be of interest to readers please contact Philip Winterbottom , Assistant Manager , Archives , at ( ) . |
5 | Incidentally , if you have any items which you think would be of interest to the Residents , your scribe would be happy to include them in the Newsletter . |
6 | In fact , neither of us wanted to go to Cranham — which we thought would be within sniffing distance of the Dartford Tunnel and all that was drab and deadly about south-east England . |
7 | As you know , these programmes come to you from the University of Sussex , and if you 've listened to any of them in the past , you 'll know that they 're devoted to topics and subjects in which we feel we have some expertise , and which we think would be of special interest to the local community . |
8 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
9 | So everything I saw would be in terms of food . |
10 | Whatever he did would be against him . |