Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] would [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not like the prospect of playing in front of all these people who were all older than me and would see my violin playing from a critical view , but I had come this far , and it would be stupid not to go through with the audition . |
| 2 | Pascoe was walking through their house , ten years before , going from room to room , first puzzled , then anxious , then searching for something that would explain her absence . |
| 3 | I am sure your grandmother would have wanted you to spend it on something that would bring you happiness . |
| 4 | In her early days , looking for something that would make her consultancy just that little bit different , she chose to have an all-women agency . |
| 5 | Jack often thought he was n't quick enough to match Charlie 's easy repartee , but now he had thought of something that would make his friend smile . |
| 6 | While some British officials were interested in the Schuman Plan , the Labour Party rejected it as something that would limit its ability to strive for democratic Socialism in Britain ‘ and to apply the economic controls necessary to achieve it ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Working among books was , on the face of it , a ladylike occupation , Mrs Broome had thought , and one that would bring her daughter into contact with a refined , intellectual type of person . |
| 9 | He had a choice of two shots and he played the most difficult one — the one that would make his ball stop better and hold . |
| 10 | But I do know at least one of his choices , the one that would top his list : something by the Shotts Pipe Band . |
| 11 | They all fancied him and would think his wife must be a monster . |
| 12 | Hank had no doubt that , sooner or later , old tabby-cats like the MacDonald woman would get wind of it and would give his mother hell about it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |