Example sentences of "[pron] that would [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't believe Craig would be involved in anything illegal , certainly nothing that would harm your prospects , Spencer . ’ |
| 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 | What would be easier than withdrawing their overseas investments , something that would decimate our markets ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But I do know at least one of his choices , the one that would top his list : something by the Shotts Pipe Band . |
| 12 | Some people literally develop another life in which they display a side of themselves that would shock their pupils as much as their colleagues if they were to find out . |
| 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 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 17 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |