Example sentences of "[vb past] it would [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said that if Constanza went it would break her heart . |
| 2 | Paul had been a real find so far , and she knew it would do his professional standing a lot of good if he could design the whole hotel complex . |
| 3 | She knew it would wound his dignity that he had been forced to skulk abroad while she had saved the firm — never mind that she had done so in the most unbusinesslike and outrageous manner . |
| 4 | For ten years , Anne who ran a G P practice from her home at Wallasey , tried to obstruct her daughter taking cannabis because she thought it would do her harm . |
| 5 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 6 | I thought it would give your mother a better chance to assess the situation if she spent a night at Chimneys . ’ |
| 7 | I entered it because I thought it would increase my confidence ; once you 've walked down a catwalk in a swimsuit , you can face most things . |
| 8 | Maybe my mother thought it would take my mind off the convent , for she agreed . |
| 9 | Electrical retailer Rumbelows said last week it would not now take Unit 12 , one of the larger shops in the centre , after the national chain announced it would streamline its business and close several shops around the country . |
| 10 | He said it would change my hair from red to black ! |
| 11 | Looking back , I said it would hurt his career . |
| 12 | Other Unix-based operating systems , such as Bull 's BOS/X and Thomson-CSF 's real-time Uni/XT will be grafted on top by individual vendors , and IBM said it would keep its mainstream RS/6000 systems in-line with the specifications . |
| 13 | In a surprise move , Whitbread also said it would halt its development of Pizza Hut in France , Belgium and Holland . |
| 14 | In Europe , after yet another airline made cutbacks — Air France said it would reduce its wage bill by FFr600m ( $118m ) — the EC is to allow temporary subsidies and will relax rules on route-sharing . |
| 15 | The Cincinnati , Ohio company originally said it would convert its software to run on HP 9000 Series 8000 machines under HP-UX Unix and that Hewlett-Packard Co had signed a joint development and marketing agreement . |
| 16 | The Cincinnati , Ohio company originally said it would convert its software to run on HP 9000 Series 8000 machines under HP-UX Unix and that Hewlett-Packard Co had signed a joint development and marketing agreement . |