Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I would prevent you from confessing , ’ she added hastily . |
| 2 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 3 | She would occasionally reward Thatcherite newspapers , such as the Express , with a gracious , unrevealing interview ; on television , Sir Robin Day and Brian Walden would flatter her by pretending to be tough , and she would flatter them by pretending they were . |
| 4 | And if he lived on the other side of the world she would think nothing of flying to meet him , she said . |
| 5 | She very much doubted that when she got home , if she ever did , she would think it worth asking her mother . |
| 6 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 7 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 8 | I venture to write and enquire if you would oblige me by calling at this Officer , at some time convenient to yourself : I am not at liberty to offer any further information at this juncture , but I think I may say that our meeting will be to your advantage . |
| 9 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 10 | Another consequence of keeping cats in this restricted way would be that you would prevent them from acting as predators of some anti-social species , e.g. rats and mice . |
| 11 | And if you would do it without telling Mr Thacker . |
| 12 | We hope that the Minister will get the best deal that he possibly can to protect our farmers and we would support him in achieving that objective . |
| 13 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 14 | I wonder if they would tell you of give you any |
| 15 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 16 | With the blanket though he would , they would stop them from moving like , you know ? |
| 17 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 18 | ‘ When they came back from the segregation unit they would thank us for getting the chance to get their heads together . ’ |
| 19 | In late 1687 he began polling the deputy lieutenants and JPs to see if they would assist him in obtaining the election of a Parliament committed to the repeal of the penal laws and the Tests . |
| 20 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 21 | He would ruin her without flinching . |
| 22 | When he played tennis with his sister , he would infuriate her by wandering off the court to contemplate . |
| 23 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 24 | But his ex-wife believes he would prevent her from visiting the grave . |
| 25 | He would surprise everyone by getting a new speech right , but then show that it had been at the expense of other sections of dialogue . |
| 26 | He would obey it by consulting the computer for the information he has missed . |
| 27 | From the day he got out , he would apply himself to spreading the invisible killer . |
| 28 | If he ever found this girl he would thank her for choosing to live in that quarter of the city . |
| 29 | Bona fide NVOCC 's would have no objections to this practice , but bad faith NVOCC 's would oppose it because it would prevent them from issuing their own bills on a ‘ freight prepaid ’ basis after they had obtained ‘ freight collect ’ terms from the actual carriers . |
| 30 | ‘ It would make it worth getting up in the morning . ’ |