Example sentences of "[noun] and would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diane locked herself in her bedroom and would n't come down for a day because she was afraid of her father 's anger . |
| 2 | This move was executed overnight , with little time to spare , for Kluck , believing both French and British forces already defeated , was still marching westward at maximum speed and would shortly have been able to envelop the BEF 's left flank . |
| 3 | This reference of Elijah would have been fully understood by Jewish readers and would also account for the crowd response at the end of the story : |
| 4 | Drew said that he was an American citizen and would not tolerate such indignities . |
| 5 | To this the magazine responded : " We note that Mr Arkell 's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you could inform us what his attitude to damages would be , were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows : fuck off " . |
| 6 | Well , he was in the ark and would presumably survive any deluge . |
| 7 | To my dismay , I found that the bleach formula had left my mind and would not be recalled . |
| 8 | Bush 's attempt to revitalize the Republican Party — and to rally the support of its right wing after abandoning his " no new taxes " pledge [ see p. 37768 ] — received a serious setback on Dec. 13 when Bennett , the former " drugs tsar " , informed him that he had changed his mind and would not accept the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) . |
| 9 | Mr Reenan , a former TSB branch boss in Abingdon , said he had been sent hate mail and would probably not use his £900 scanner again . |
| 10 | The resulting redrawing of constituency boundaries meant that French-speakers living in the suburbs of Brussels would become part of the Flemish province of Brabant surrounding Brussels and would thus lose the right to vote French speakers into the regional parliaments . |
| 11 | Van Cheele 's old dog , when he saw the boy , had run away in fear and would not come back into the house . |
| 12 | When he leaned over her , tried to bring her face back , she tucked her lips inside her mouth and would n't speak . |
| 13 | So now , although her guests had really had enough tea and would rather have been somewhere else , everyone was showing signs of impatience for another cup . |
| 14 | Well why not try Wolverhampton the golden glow of the amber shirts of Wolves will take on the proudly bar coded Magpies and would n't we like to see Notts wallop Wolves . |
| 15 | The Profitboss rarely uses overtime and would never rely on it . |
| 16 | A spokesman said the Government was confident of winning the vote and would not be drawn on ‘ hypothetical ’ discussion about defeat . |
| 17 | It was fortunate that the longer wheelbase cars had been removed to work on the Sutton route as they were longer and of larger capacity than the Corporation cars and would certainly have given trouble on the section between Selby Road and West Croydon , which was all single track with short passing loops . |
| 18 | There are two safeguards however , such an Order requires the Secretary of State 's confirmation and would probably result in a public inquiry and should the local authority be successful s.170 of that Act provides that compensation is payable in respect or any exercise of the power . |
| 19 | Far from opening the conduct of foreign affairs to democratic control , the League lacked any democratic assembly of the peoples and would merely provide a cover for all the bad old habits of secret diplomacy . |
| 20 | Dennis had been abandoned and , having wandered about long enough , he climbed into a passing car and would n't budge . |
| 21 | I wore my trusty Scarpa Trionic Mantas ( £106 ) for the whole trek , as we were expecting snow and would therefore need the compatible Yeti Gaiters that help make the boots virtually waterproof . |
| 22 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 23 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 24 | Since E ' ; lies below the corresponding point on LAC at the output Q ' ; , the monopolist is making losses and would rather go out of business . |
| 25 | Until such contacts are in place , deep mined output would not be attractive to the private industry and would not be saleable . |
| 26 | It had been believed that England would be seeded to head Group F and would thus be based in Calgiari , Sardinia . |
| 27 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 28 | Eddie has been at the surgery 18 months and would not be able to survive in the wild . |
| 29 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 30 | John is fourteen next term and would normally leave school in a couple of years time . |