Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] would [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that was the case I 'd play a synthesiser . ’ |
| 2 | Chairman I would like a word . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I 'd bear a grudge , ’ said Lydia , amazed that anyone could imagine she might not . |
| 4 | Accordingly the Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury recommended a different approach ( but only for death or personal injury ) in the form of a parent statute which would empower a Minister to ‘ list ’ dangerous things or activities as giving rise to strict liability . |
| 5 | The social services department is often willing to help in identifying the most needy senior citizens in the immediate neighbourhood who would appreciate a parcel of produce . |
| 6 | For this rule you would use a point marked C as the reference to measure two club lengths if the ball is dropped on the opposite side of the hazard . |
| 7 | Moreover , incorporation itself would involve a cessation for income tax purposes . |
| 8 | In the longer term we would support a review of the B1 Business Use Class to extend the powers of local authorities over this form of development . |
| 9 | It was nice to talk over old times and Swire Sugden assured me that in future he would get a consensus before sending in the bulldozers . |
| 10 | In the future it would earn a lot of laughs , but Rain did not think it deserved any yet . |
| 11 | If he were a poet he would write a poem to that glimpse of bare ankle . |
| 12 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 13 | Among the peers identified by the parliamentary writer Andrew Roth as voting in favour of a measure which would oblige a labourer to pay the same amount of tax as a millionaire were the Duke of Buccleuch , the biggest landowner in Europe , the beef magnate Lord Vestey , another of the richest men in Britain , and the eighty-three-year-old Marquis of Bath , of the Longleat Estate . |
| 14 | In the winter I 'd have a vest underneath and a green army jumper over the shirt , but not in the summer . |
| 15 | It was Mr Major who saw that in the preservation of the Union lay an issue which would strike a chord not only in Scotland , but across Britain . |
| 16 | Their Lordships find it quite impossible to say that he was in error , and still less in the kind of error which would entitle a reviewing court to intervene , by making the choice which he did . |
| 17 | Mr Kidd said the committee was producing a draft guide for management which would include a review of existing legislation in six European countries . |
| 18 | In less than a second it would tear a gap in the highway the width of the riverbed . |
| 19 | When we was about fourteen in the fourth year at school , there was this quite chubby bloke he 'd have a towel just there while you shower . |
| 20 | The Global Peace Whatever would lose a lot of credibility , she reflected . |
| 21 | and this would , you would think , because there 's a shift back of capital to agriculture you 'd get a rise in agricultural wage rates because that changes the capital to labour ratio again and so this would counteract the movement . |
| 22 | Earlier this year the mother of three , who counts Warren Beatty and George Hamilton among her former beaus , was quoted as saying : ‘ If someone gave me the cash I 'd have a facelift this minute . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If I was a toff I 'd have a watch , ’ said Sadie glancing at a wrist that needed no additions . |
| 24 | The study aimed to allow staff and parents time to think critically together about educational issues and their joint responsibilities , and to provide a brief record of the process which would include a monitoring commentary . |
| 25 | But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses . |
| 26 | Making a pit is not a job you would pay a builder to do . |
| 27 | So if you just kept your treble clef you 'd have a lot of lines possibly that you were n't using at all . |
| 28 | ( And , incidentally , the ones with the throwaway cash to be able to drink every pub in Minehead dry the pub landlords were the only ones in the town who would welcome a return visit from the YFs ) . |
| 29 | ‘ It is said that in the time of Shang they would take a tortoise shell and cover it with ink , then throw it into a fire . |
| 30 | At any moment he would slide a spike between her ribs . |