Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then playing a a hook , bowling a hook with a sort of a long hook to An iron hoop or hook it would about two foot six in circumference . |
| 2 | Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples . |
| 3 | The group the old pullover has a structure in which the can be replaced by , for example , an , my , Joe 's , this , but not by Joe , Monday or want which would produce a non-English group , eg *Monday old pullover . |
| 4 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 5 | If her young sister needed her help , advice or support she would return instantly — a situation even more tenable since Sebastian Grantham 's generous offer to settle her present flight bills ! |
| 6 | Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ? |
| 7 | If a document was issued or received it would be filed in the appropriate place in Nigel Couville 's kingdom . |
| 8 | If you have a story or issue you would like to see covered or if you have any enquiries about the programme please write to : |
| 9 | Fathers who , for example , induce their daughters of this age to fellate or masturbate them would thus become liable for incest . |
| 10 | We talked about each department erm being able to invest in their own technology and make their own er decisions on what sort of database or interface they would use to deploy their applications . |
| 11 | If there is a common underlying theme or thread it would seem to be the unstated assumption that ‘ anyone can make it if they try , and if they conform to the rules ’ ; those who fail must suffer from some congenital lack of capacities , or be of an alien disposition . |
| 12 | That is , if one were to attempt to visualize the three personae involved in terms of a novel or play one would need pages to describe the kinds of interchange that Shakespeare renders in a quatrain : ‘ Trice threefold ’ , too , are the number of lines taken up by editors trying to pin down the multiple shifts of identity which take place in these four lines . |
| 13 | The sensible part , however , knew that seeing him would only be painful and that if she was to get over this miserable crush she ought to do everything possible to stay away from the man . |
| 14 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |
| 15 | And erm with these you changed them both into sixths did n't you could have changed them both into twelfths and it would have work but then we 'll get an answer that needs we would have got sixth twelfths well it still comes to a half . |
| 16 | National pay settlements and negotiating arrangements hinder that process which would be improved , they argue , by ‘ flexibility ’ in wage-rates and local pay bargaining . |
| 17 | The transport is also better , with the airport considerably closer than say it would have been in Manchester . |
| 18 | It had also occurred to him that if he wrote that report it would be the last thing he ever did in the Army . |
| 19 | Though that was easier said than done she would do her best , and try instead to enjoy what she could of the coming seven days , and treat each day as a holiday and as if she had n't a care in the world . |
| 20 | He went on to say that meeting her would be like meeting an apparition from their past … ‘ you will rediscover yourself in her ’ . |
| 21 | Quite convinced that meeting you would dispel the fantasy , and yet at the same time did n't want that to happen at all . |
| 22 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
| 23 | You are going to decide now , by looking at your graph how you could improve this piece of work and I want you to write the target you decide on , it could be more than one , in the space that says I would improve this work by , you 're to write that now please , off you go and while you 're doing that let's get the register done , shh , shh shh , shh Sarah |
| 24 | Like Flaubert , I left Belle-Ile hoping to return — and hoping , too , that the island 's isolation and the occasional fogs that cover it would discourage too many other tourists . |
| 25 | Had n't he said that to express it would be just empty words ? |
| 26 | In the council chamber quite recently one of the Socialists supported the position taken up by the Soviet Government in Russia in a way that showed what would happen here if they got the power in their hands . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew it would n't win — there was no aspect in his charts that showed he would . ’ |
| 28 | Labour showed some chagrin that the Tories had stolen a march on them by ending conscription , but even Aneurin Bevan , the shadow Foreign Secretary and a unilateralist at heart , accepted the need for the British nuclear deterrent , making his famous remark that to abandon it would ‘ send a British Foreign Secretary , whoever he may be , naked to the conference table ’ . |
| 29 | Although the alarms looked inexpensive , there were concerns that providing them would saddle landlords with ongoing maintenance costs . |
| 30 | Immediately I saw that if Edward had mentioned that name it would have been deemed a great betrayal . |