Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] would [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time , walking in the crowded arcades of the Plaza Mayor , my heart would miss a beat as I fancied I saw Jordi mingling with all those similar dark heads and slender figures . |
| 2 | I do n't know what you said to The Times man , but when I opened the paper in bed ( at mea mos est ) wondering whether my letter would find a place at all-well I dived under the bed clothes and went pink all over-as pink as you ! |
| 3 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 4 | Dominique is shocked , but agrees that it is a car everyone can enjoy , ‘ although my mother would have a heart attack in it ’ , she adds with glee . |
| 5 | Acceptance of pain was the bridge that enabled a girl to relinquish her hope that her clitoris would become a penis , and to become instead a mature woman whose sexuality was focused upon her vagina . |
| 6 | Count Otto Lambsdorff , the West German FDP chair , who was present , declared that its formation would avoid a split in the liberal centre vote . |
| 7 | VP : a statement has empirical meaning iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , which , since a statement is verifiable , on this approach , iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , is equivalent to : VP 1 : a statement has empirical meaning iff it is verifiable . |
| 8 | VP : a statement has empirical meaning iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , which , since a statement is verifiable , on this approach , iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , is equivalent to : VP 1 : a statement has empirical meaning iff it is verifiable . |
| 9 | There were no words to explain how she felt but her body would smooth a way . |
| 10 | Three months would give her a chance to pack up both her belongings and her brother 's — and perhaps whoever she found to take on her flat would pay a month 's rent in advance too . |
| 11 | And Nan would be twenty next month and due for a rise , and she was hoping her father would stretch a point and make it ten shillings , for no matter what he said , Nan was a good assistant . |
| 12 | Danzigers might have rejoiced that as Poland 's industrial wealth increased , their city would have a monopoly of Polish international trade . |
| 13 | But it is believed that the bank will not pull the plug in haste as its image would take a knock and the money it is owed would be unlikely to be recovered . |
| 14 | In a Parliamentary debate on wages councils Ms Eagle claimed that their abolition would see a return to poverty pay . |
| 15 | ‘ I would think no jewel thief worth her salt would send a man directly to the hiding spot — no matter how high above the ground she was floating . ’ |
| 16 | She kept wishing her mother would have a sister for her , but Jean Keith was in no great hurry to oblige . |
| 17 | According to this view , de Gaulle was calculating that his resignation would produce a groundswell of popular annoyance with the parties or would give the politicians an opportunity to display their full incompetence — either of which outcomes would lead to de Gaulle 's rapid reinstatement , this time with a popular mandate to create the kind of constitution that he favoured . |
| 18 | Following the announcement by President Clinton that his administration would introduce a range of measures to encourage energy conservation [ see ED 68 ] , further details about the proposed federal energy tax have been made public . |
| 19 | On May 19 Shin Kanemaru , leader of what was still generally considered to be the Takeshita faction in the LDP , announced that his grouping would field a candidate for the LDP leadership election in October . |
| 20 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 21 | And you think about this for a while — how a 72-year-old man can get away with a storyline that rappers 50 years his junior would get a battering for . |
| 22 | At the annual meeting on Thursday of Bell Group , another Bond subsidiary , the chairman , Tony Oates , said his firm would weather a collapse of Bond Corp because it was a separate company . |
| 23 | He and his entourage would become a focus for discontent , of all kinds , further polarising the community and adding to investment woes . |
| 24 | Miyazawa promised that , by the middle of the year , his government would produce a plan for cutting the deficit , but he resisted Roh 's demand for the transfer of technology as a form of compensation for the trade imbalance . |
| 25 | On May 27 President Najibullah announced that his government would accept a ceasefire with the mujaheddin in order to allow the implementation of a UN peace plan . |
| 26 | And sometimes his hand would creep a bit higher , and then when I was near fit to burst with joy he 'd stop his tickling and say : ‘ Ay , but I should n't do that , should I ? |
| 27 | Festivals held in his honour were attended by priests carrying reindeer pelts , and devotees of his cult would drink a beverage of the powdered ‘ velvet ’ from the tips of the antlers , said to produce visions and act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 28 | Steve Chen broke cover at Supercomputing ‘ 92 a couple of weeks ago to give a progress report , but when asked when his company would produce a machine , said only ‘ my answer is very simple , soon , I hope very soon . ’ |
| 29 | Theologically trained readers of his time would recognise a background of scholarly debate on whether it is primarily through man 's intellect or capacity to love , that the soul engages with God , and they would be able to acknowledge Hilton 's synthesis of understanding and desire . |
| 30 | And then in his soul would succeed a sort of despair , because this passion for a man had recurred in him . |