Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pers pn] would [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Where the value of the investment falls below the completed cancellation notice is received , an amount equal to such fall in the purchase price will be deducted from the refund he would otherwise have received ; therefore he will not get a full refund of the money paid by him .
2 Seventy-one per cent of respondents wrote and said that the change they would most like to see was ‘ equality of opportunity ’ .
3 If they had not abandoned you then you would not be here , you would not be wanting to run the width of the compound to drink the shit you would n't give your dog at home .
4 Round about four o'clock in the afternoon he would sometimes forget Morris and sprawl back in his chair with his hands behind his head , yawning and looking at the ceiling , just as he had before Morris 's arrival .
5 They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ?
6 ‘ — but if Ross had n't twisted Owen 's arm and made him take the money we would n't have been able to afford even a shoe-box .
7 But the point that Anna failed to grasp was that without the money it would never have occurred to him to marry her .
8 Geoff said if I had n't have wanted the money I would n't have bothered .
9 and he says no I , I reckon I had a word with our Margaret she said no it do n't matter , but if that 's gon na be the case I 'd rather give it to him back , I mean I 've got it
10 ‘ If that were the case I 'd hardly have accepted your invitation , ’ she pointed out with some asperity .
11 And Goldberg , on his pad : If the fool had ever bothered to read what I have written on the subject in the essay on aura and the hour he would not have flailed about as he does here .
12 But conditions in the mines are so appalling that if the Furus were not under the influence of the drug they would undoubtedly refuse outright to go below ground . ’
13 If they used the money that they take from us for the maintenance of the camp we would live like kings .
14 On the contrary it would merely increase their anxiety level , even if there was nothing to worry about .
15 The dog was watering the delphiniums and I was on my knees and elbows , bottom in the air , trying to push the ashtray in from a different angle , in the hope he would n't notice it , when the garden gate creaked open — it was the postman .
16 Again , he was in an hotel , although not the kind he would normally care to frequent .
17 But under section 83(1) the building society , if rectification were ordered , would have what seems to me to be an unimpeachable statutory right to an indemnity against the loss it would thereby suffer .
18 It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years .
19 ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’
20 We are also gravely concerned because at the Lavenham parish meeting Mr Tony Webster of Atlas Aggregates categorically refused to give an assurance that in the future they would not apply to extend the mining operation to other parts of Cross Green Farm .
21 ‘ Despite all the distress I would still go on , ’ she said .
22 In the dark he would not see the obstacle .
23 In the last chapter , in prison , he says that without the crime he would not have found within himself such questions , desires , feelings , needs , strivings , and development . ’
24 Her coach , Ian Threadgill , said : ‘ We 've got to be delighted with that without the wind she would easily have got the qualifying time . ’
25 The two students who were watching over her told her very sensibly that if she tried to drive the car she 'd probably kill herself .
26 ‘ Without the programme I would not have prepared a proper business plan or met the contacts essential to business ’ .
27 They say that if you , if it was n't for the shooting we would n't have any grouse or pheasants cos they would n't be preserved .
28 Mike , beginning to feel some exhilaration as he thought about the piece he would now have to write , and write bloody fast , pushed the thought away .
29 He was behaving as the hunter he would soon become .
30 ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR .
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