Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then I 'd wash away the soap and I 'd lick your breasts , suck on your nipples , ’ he murmured . |
| 2 | I 'd have though the tulip in the coal scuttle , the tulips in the cauldron , I thought they 'd had it , they were lying down completely |
| 3 | Initially , I would stress initially the reference side of has to be ten per cent of the the authorisation the best thing since sliced bread . |
| 4 | ‘ I would think just the sound of David Markham 's name would set him off . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I did a section on one incisor from each of them and I would estimate both the man 's and woman 's age as in the early twenties . ’ |
| 6 | So she 'd do just the opposite , keeping him close and at the same time keeping a watchful eye on all he was doing . |
| 7 | After the curtain had come down and she 'd put away the props she hid in the extra 's dressing-room in case the reporter had changed his mind and dared to wait for her . |
| 8 | ‘ I know , ’ said Marian , smiling , ‘ it was the horses … their faces when they found you 'd cut loose the horses . ’ |
| 9 | She would infect even the trivialities of conversation with the vileness of her thought . |
| 10 | She was still bent to the Dobermann when she discovered that she needed a moment to control a knot of emotion that came from the thought that she would see neither the dog nor its owner again . |
| 11 | It was obvious to the rest of us that this is the path she would take once the heat had blown over — such actions are part and parcel of everyday life in America . |
| 12 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 13 | ‘ If no one else turned up we 'd play three pots in , at night we 'd get nearer the light in the pub car park and try to play in the pitch black . |
| 14 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he or my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment had a meeting with business leaders to discuss the policy of the minimum wage , they would tell both the House and the country what business leaders had to say about the damaging effect on jobs that such a minimum wage would have ? |
| 15 | The judges also said that they would set aside the orders of Justice Morling that the Tobacco Industry of Australia could never , at any time in the future , replicate the claims contained in the offending sentence . |
| 16 | Their first tactic was to say they would take away the licence of any striker : their second was to say all striking drivers were in breach of contract and fire them . |
| 17 | And they would sell maybe the cloth |
| 18 | The lobbyists argued that if bureaucrats ran the regional pools , they would have neither the incentive nor the ability to negotiate the best possible deal . |
| 19 | But he was not comfortable with sharing his secret until he 'd put twice the distance between his confession and their ears . |
| 20 | He 'd hit exactly the tee-shot he wanted to — a high cut to gain maximum distance with the wind and finish on the right . |
| 21 | On journeys , he would study both the red and the green Michelin guides , in search of gastronomy and culture , and sit in the back seat issuing careful instructions to the driver that ‘ in about a quarter of a mile you come to a place to turn right ’ . |
| 22 | He would put away the car quietly , leaving the garage open in case the thud of the door woke her , then sneak in like a thief at the back door . |
| 23 | In a typical case in which a husband , seeking a bank advance for his business purposes , is told by his bank manager that security in the form of a charge over the jointly owned matrimonial home must be provided , it would astonish both the husband and the bank manager to be told that the husband had been appointed by the bank as its agent to obtain the wife 's consent to the proposed charge . |
| 24 | Third , an option should be created whereby , if the directors themselves set out a full enough statement of their responsibilities , it would obviate entirely the requirement to describe directors ' responsibilities in the auditors ' report . |
| 25 | A three-week strike by 11 teacher unions had ended on Sept. 20 when the government reached a settlement with nine of the unions whereby it would pay immediately the equivalent of US$1,600,000 in back salaries from 1987 and the remaining US$4,400,000 in the next fiscal year . |
| 26 | A new study by two British economists shows that it would do just the opposite * . |
| 27 | It would soothe away the worries that ached in his head , even on this hazy gold morning of early September , with a fine harvest coming and plenty of work for the young men in the new town . |
| 28 | That is ‘ No comment ’ , but it 's ‘ No comment ’ done in such a way that it is implying intelligence on the part of the audience , saying , ‘ Well , you realize , of course , that if I were to comment on this , you know , it would prejudice either the chances of the prisoner if we catch him or , you know , any possible clues and so on . ’ |
| 29 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 30 | It would lessen both the capital value and the size of the dividends gained by those who have made disproportionate gains from privatization . |