Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] they would " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of my mates said if they were going out with someone and they got pregnant they would run . |
| 2 | Given that they would have to look for other offices , the partners decided to take the opportunity to merge the three Isle of Wight offices and reap the benefits of the resulting economies of scale . |
| 3 | This not merely makes direct comparison difficult , but it may also mean that such comparisons would be of questionable value given that they would not relate to the actual situation in which traditional and non-traditional students are competing for places , and in which their work and achievement can be meaningfully compared . |
| 4 | In the first place all they would do would be to redistribute ownership ( probably ) amongst existing groups . |
| 5 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 6 | Terry Mulloy , chairman of the governors , who has a five-year-old son at Lady Jane Grey , says that if children , while being taught reading in a small group , got bored they would be allowed to wander off and do something else . |
| 7 | This was to assume that the Danish people would change their minds of their own volition ; that they had been so overcome by the enormity of what they had done that they would hardly be able to wait to get back to the polling stations to put it all right . |
| 8 | Speaking against the movement C Hughes argued that by passing this they would ‘ be voting for pacifism , and there would be no patriotic Stratford society after that ’ ( SE 3 August 18 ) . |
| 9 | They 'd come here to learn , but it seemed all they would ever learn was how to alter that which they had no possibility of understanding into something so familiar there was no point in their understanding it . |
| 10 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 11 | It 's not a big money-making thing — if they could break even they 'd be happy . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ George Best ’ had confirmed the group 's status as a major outfit and it became inevitable they would soon move on from their Reception Records . |
| 13 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 14 | Over the years , I have seen so many private gardens and advised so many gardeners on labour-saving tools and equipment , and what comes through loud and clear is that the biggest problem facing gardeners is that they are caught in the trap between growing all they would like to grow , doing all they want to do and having the lime to do it . |
| 15 | we really enjoyed them , but you see if we 'd of got four they would n't of been so nice |
| 16 | And er a and then they 'd go , they 'd , they 'd , if the mother was strong healthy and everything was going alright they 'd probably leave it another month before they went . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd make sure they would never do this again , ’ said the still fit 58-year-old . |
| 18 | To do that they would actually need to have two effective votes . |
| 19 | The Gestapo was just about running the Communist party by 1944 , but to do that they 'd have to let some small fry run free , and from their point of view the Eismarks would be very small indeed . |
| 20 | In this sense the members are not prevented from changing the scope of authority of the executive staff , but to do this they would be acting collectively qua ITC not as individual members . |
| 21 | To do this they would need lots of wood or charcoal . |
| 22 | ‘ As I do not have the good fortune to know your family , Emilia , I am hardly in a position to say , though I feel sure they would wish to know of your distress . ’ |
| 23 | They were used to being the pet of the house , and so whenever I went to my uncles , both dogs never seemed to take their eyes off me and their big mouths were always gaping wide , showing long sharp teeth , and I knew fine they 'd like to sink them into me . |
| 24 | There was no reason why they should know the answer , but he felt sure they would . |
| 25 | He charmed his victims , drugged them , assaulted them and felt confident they would either not know what had happened or be too embarrassed to tell . |
| 26 | Had Red Reg turned up here , one felt certain they would have set the whole menagerie on him . |
| 27 | As the days became warmer they would go to the pond to feed the ducks and then along to the terraced rose gardens before making their way to the nearby swings and roundabouts in the small enclosed area . |
| 28 | You expect that if you set a 10:10 standard on a [ large well-known company ] for a , say a pickle liquor , or something , if you did that they would comply because they 're big enough and they 've got the expertise , and so on . |
| 29 | Maybe if more people did this they would think twice before harming it . |
| 30 | Should England come second they would then go to Genoa to play the runners-up from Group B , who are more likely to be Argentina or the Soviet Union than Romania or Cameroun , although this does look the toughest , tightest group of all . |