Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , this is another aspect of the European playing field where it would be desirable for some levelling to take place … |
| 2 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 3 | ‘ They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job , being from the City , but I have n't found an instance where I would want to get rid of anyone . ’ |
| 4 | A woman she passed was telling her husband to put on his shirt or he would bum . |
| 5 | You recall that we could not have the needles always selected in the same direction or we would end up with biased fabric ? |
| 6 | After a hearty cooked breakfast the next morning , Meryl hurried to the hall to find a good seat where she would get the best out of the professor 's lecture . |
| 7 | They certainly do n't know that they 're bidding against a phantom bid or they would n't bid ’ , he said . |
| 8 | This base can be the rear seat rail , or another rail fitted above the seat , but if so , no more than 2in above the seat or it would also need to be curved to avoid discomfort . |
| 9 | Gotrek swore an oath that he would have his money or its weregeld price in Elf blood or he would shave his head . |
| 10 | Perhaps the only occasion suggested in this chapter where you would n't want to press the flowers immediately is on Valentine 's Day . |
| 11 | ‘ That is not what I thought , ’ said Ellen , ‘ but it must have crossed your mind or you would n't have brought it up . ’ |
| 12 | Commanders were selected at top level of course , after which they were invited to attend at HQ where they would sift through the applications from prospective crew members , discuss them with the administrating Inspector and eventually come to a mutual agreement on the crewing of each cutter for the following year . |
| 13 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 14 | He was her sole reason for getting up at all , the only incentive to clothe and feed herself and drag herself from her bedroom where she would much prefer to stay . |
| 15 | Rehearsals were held in Gedge 's bedroom where he would play a toy electric organ and everyone would take a turn drumming on a Smash tin lid . |
| 16 | Paddy and I shared the neurosis of spending longer than necessary calculating where we would be on what date if we maintained that day 's speed . |
| 17 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 18 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 19 | The rate of value added tax ( VAT ) was to be lowered from 25 to 22 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 ; taxes on electricity and fuel for industrial use would be abolished , while the tax on carbon dioxide emissions would be increased to 0.32 kronor per kilogramme of emission except for industry where it would be 0.08 kronor per kilogramme . |
| 20 | Instead , the new provisions will operate only until passage of a draft law on strikes , which itself bans such industrial action where it would endanger ‘ lives and health ’ . |
| 21 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 22 | Now she had to sit in his boat or he would be insulted and she was glad to rest . |
| 23 | the movement had to discuss the ultimate and logical outcome of political action or it would be adding to confusion . |
| 24 | Yet if the customer is adamant that you must go and you can not be fitted into another niche where you would have no contact with him , you may be vulnerable to dismissal . |
| 25 | Riding to help out usually gives you rides on a better horse than you would probably find at an average riding school and without the expense ! |
| 26 | ‘ The issue is , of course , when we come to sell off stock that we would otherwise have returned , what percentage of its normal retail price can we get ? ’ |
| 27 | Erm I mean we do n't even look at the figures on those , because it 's not the sort of investment that we would actually consider erm useful for a , for a longer term investor . |
| 28 | His warning to the American President that he would support Native Americans ( ‘ Red Indians ’ , whom he presumes to be tribally organized ) against the federal government is consistent with his view that natural ties are more than just rational ones . |
| 29 | Instead of passing on this information , the defendant persuaded the other employee to leave and join his own business ; the discontented client in the meantime had agreed with the defendant that he would use him as his legal adviser in the future . |
| 30 | He would fit more naturally into an old silent movie than he would have done on Tiswas . |