Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carling said : ‘ I admired Gerber as one of the world 's great centres long before I ever dreamed I would pull on an England shirt . |
| 2 | Er er well , I would read for an hour before I went to sleep . |
| 3 | I thought that I would begin with an outline of the problems you face , and go on to chronicle your successes . ’ |
| 4 | In the early days she would go for an evening ‘ burn up ’ in her car around central London , leaving her armed Scotland Yard bodyguard behind . |
| 5 | She 'd known Candy for too long to have any hope that she would escape without an inquisition . |
| 6 | Er as far as I can remember er you would start as an apprentice riveter , and you would do sort of odd jobs within a s a squad , rivet |
| 7 | If you lived badly you would return as an insect . ’ |
| 8 | As you would expect from an organisation committed to staff development , SCOTVEC carries out an evaluation and review of all subject assessor training events . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the sort of performance we would expect from an understudy , ’ was one review I had . |
| 10 | Having experienced both , I know that we would benefit from an awareness of the relativity of all healing approaches , and a recognition of the universality of their concerns . |
| 11 | Goering thought the Blitz would bring England to its knees and we would sue for an armistice . |
| 12 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 13 | ‘ We would live in an election atmosphere month after month . ’ |
| 14 | If the surgeon believes that they would benefit from an operation , their names are placed on the waiting list and they are asked to come into hospital when a bed is available . |
| 15 | They would stop at an inn for a midday meal , discuss their finds and be instructed particularly on their medical properties . |
| 16 | We ca n't afford to be caught making what they would take as an act of aggression . ’ |
| 17 | er Apollo Leisure had decided that they would like to have arts and science under the same roof , er the arts has been something that 's considered an acceptable cultural pastime , and people will go out at weekends , take the family and will do something that , they would look at an exhibition , er or they would go to the theatre , whereas in science , there is n't really anything that you can do as a social or cultural pastime . |
| 18 | At Tangier , he would stay at an hotel nearby . ’ |
| 19 | Thank God , that was the last time he would have to do it ; after this he would go as an executive , by aircraft and helicopter only . |
| 20 | What happened was , when we 'd go there to rehearse on a Friday night , he would disappear for an hour or so . |
| 21 | He would know in an instant if the Bogeyman made a move , or if anyone left the kitchen by the doorway into the hall . |
| 22 | There came a time when she thought that if she did it once more , he would burst of an apoplexy . |
| 23 | He would live in an attic and wear threadbare clothes provides he could go on seeing and making movies ’ . |
| 24 | He would wait for an hour or so , reading a newspaper or catching up on paperwork , then he would go to the McCausland counter and hire a car . |
| 25 | And it would bring to an end a promising era of Security Council co-operation . |
| 26 | It would bring to an end a long and glorious chapter in the history of humanity 's intellectual struggle to understand the universe . |
| 27 | This kind of teaching , it was argued , implicitly if not explicitly , was unacceptable because it would lead to an undermining of loyalty to the nation and government in minds too tender truly to comprehend the import of what was happening to them . |
| 28 | A proposal put forward by Mona Wilson , a feminist employed at the Ministry of Reconstruction during World War I , to make provision for all one-parent families outside the Poor Law , failed because , in the view of the Government Actuary , first it was too expensive and , secondly , by abandoning the principles of the 1834 Act , he feared that it would lead to an increase in illegitimacy . |
| 29 | Apart from issues of principle , perhaps the major practical objection put forward against charges is that it would lead to an increase in evasion ; the incentive to undertake development without applying for planning permission would rise in line with the rate of charge ( particularly for ‘ householder ’ types of development ) . |
| 30 | The original observation that an extract containing prostaglandins lowered blood pressure was a good reason for further investigation , but did not mean that it would lead to an agent for treating high blood pressure . |