Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] would [vb infin] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was she who eventually recommended that Laura go to a college she knew of — one where she would find an environment supportive of her experience . |
| 2 | I decided that I would keep an eye on Tom after that . |
| 3 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 4 | I told them that I would like an audience with Andropov because I had something very important to discuss with him . |
| 5 | It was degrading even to contemplate that she would feel an obligation towards him . |
| 6 | Killion spread his hands on the table , in the hope that she would rest an arm within stroking range . |
| 7 | She flirted outrageously , promising that she would secure an interview for him with the Queen but she always seemed to fail . |
| 8 | Her supervisor and other friends in the Faculty encouraged her to think that she would get an appointment at Cambridge eventually if she could hang on . |
| 9 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 10 | There was a fair indication too that , if she got the job , she was going to work harder than she had ever worked , in that she would have an assistant to work with her . |
| 11 | Some of us said that we would keep an eye on what happened to that Act in the years that followed . |
| 12 | I mean all I , I would like to , to say is that so far as this particular road , whatever you may call it , er is concerned , that we look at highways priorities in this committee and that we would receive an assurance that this would not be bulldozed through , if I may put it that way , erm and opposed to one two three four other major schemes which are perhaps of more importance in terms of highways rather than er a , a corporate objective . |
| 13 | Similar proposals put forward at the end of World War I , to provide financial support via NHI to women after childbirth , were rejected largely because it was felt that they would offer an inducement to married women to work . |
| 14 | It is noteworthy that those who advocate these policies also themselves concede in surveys that they would welcome an increase in the basic rate of tax as well as other tax increases . |
| 15 | He offered Gedge a bet that they would play an encore again sometime in the next five years , but he refused . |
| 16 | It was also envisaged that they would play an advocacy and educational role on behalf of dementia sufferers throughout their area . |
| 17 | Parliament announced that it would hold an emergency debate on the accidents . |
| 18 | On Nov. 25 the North Korean government declared that it would sign an agreement permitting international inspection of its nuclear facilities once the US had began withdrawing its nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | It also stated that it would sign an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency before the end of January which would allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities [ see p. 38721 ] . |
| 20 | Two days later , the Commons trade and industry select committee announced that it would conduct an inquiry into the whole affair . |
| 21 | Lord Salisbury did offer the Rolls to Clarke , who declined it on the ground that it would put an end to his political career , though he added that he would accept being made a Law Lord . |
| 22 | This was an obvious reference to the rebellion of 1601 , led by the Earl of Essex , when the play was performed in the hope that it would incite an outbreak and uprising , the play being performed on Saturday February 7th the day prior to that set for the uprising . |
| 23 | When the song was first released , Right Said Fred had the notion that it would find an audience in the gay club scene . |
| 24 | No , M' lud , we hold that it would have an emetic , not a mimetic , effect on any reader . |
| 25 | Since Palm Springs , the commission 's chairman , Mr Setsuo Umezawa , has been telling everyone that he would welcome an increase in the penalties for anti-competitive behaviour . |
| 26 | He also said that he would prefer an audience that could neither read nor write . |
| 27 | It is true that he would have an answer to those claims because she was in desertion , but nevertheless he would be put to all the trouble , worry and expense of defending himself against them . |
| 28 | If a child of the late twentieth century asked this question of a parent , it is unlikely that he would receive an answer that would be intelligible to him . |
| 29 | erm , well I think it 's , do , erm I do n't know whether you understand what 's been asked doctor it cou it 's a question of costs , er normally where er matters erm are dealt with in chambers for in counsel appear then erm these counsel do n't get paid for the other side erm unless there is certificate for counsel as I understand it , were the , were the counsel appeared before the Judge erm they are entitled to their costs and this is er an appeal to the Judge , but er what I think Mr is saying is , in case he happens to be wrong in that he would like an order that er his fees should be proper fees of the defen of the plaintiffs on this appeal and er such as you could say seems to me that er , that is a , that would be proper |
| 30 | Just occasionally a lesser official might eschew them : Sir Edward Hoby , for instance , told Robert Cecil in 1599 that he would like an office in reversion , since this would give him something to do ; he would not exercise the post by deputy . |