Example sentences of "[adv] would [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | AN Olympic sprinter takes around 20 seconds to cover 200m , but how long would it take even the fastest reader to plough through the 211m of shelf space of new material acquired in the past year by the National Library of Wales ' Department of Manuscripts and Records ? |
| 32 | there 's twenty twenty men , right five hours to big hole , how long would it take one man . |
| 33 | And how long would it take to go round the Isle of Wight , which is sixty miles round the Isle of Wight ? |
| 34 | How long would it take you to get the furniture out ? |
| 35 | Roughly how long would it have taken , walking at 4 km per hour , to cross from the fields on one side to the fields on the other side ? |
| 36 | erm How long would it have taken five men ? |
| 37 | Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ? |
| 38 | And how long would you expect me to stay there ? |
| 39 | How long would you leave your stooks in the field ? |
| 40 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) : ‘ How long would you continue to be happy to simply do what you 're doing now , before you wanted a new challenge ? ’ |
| 41 | How long would you watch , okay ? |
| 42 | How 's the , and what sort of time would you spend , how long would you spend at Sunday School ? |
| 43 | How long would you camp up there ? |
| 44 | He waved his spoon slackly , pointing it vaguely upstairs , then said : ‘ How long would you say the flex on the telephone is ? ’ |
| 45 | how long would you say this street is ? |
| 46 | Yes Fred do you , would you , how long would you wait to collect the ? |
| 47 | How long would he reign ? |
| 48 | " How long would he take checking the Pascoe result ? " |
| 49 | They replied that not only would we need planning permission , but that they would probably not grant it , and even if hey did , its subsequent use would be restricted to river users only . |
| 50 | In consideration of this , not only would they shelve the files in question , but pay him a monthly stipend into the bargain . |
| 51 | Not only would they point to economic forces which limit those choices but they would also point out that the resultant individual choices lead to an impoverishment of products , to the Sun and not the Independent , to Sunday Sport and not News-on-Sunday . |
| 52 | Then she changed her mind and said she 'd have an audience after all , and then , best of all , she said not only would she have an audience , but she 'd like them to ask her questions . |
| 53 | ‘ Not only would she have put your sister to some considerable nuisance , for I would not have been able to see her had things gone according to schedule … ’ |
| 54 | He could see the smart business girl : she 'd likely be wearing three-inch high heels and her hair would be permed ; and not only would she look smart , she 'd talk smart . |
| 55 | Not only would I lose a valued client but her collection might come on to the market , her reasons for selling would become known , Durances all over the world would become suspect and lose their value and dealers would suffer . |
| 56 | Not only would I have refrained from interfering with Thorpe J. 's decision on the footing that he had properly directed himself and that it was for him to decide , but because , even on the facts as they then were , I consider that his decision was plainly right . |
| 57 | Not only would you need a suitable plane . |
| 58 | I 've told you , he 's got this mania for her : not only would he take us to court but … but I think he 'd kill anybody who dared to stand between her and him . |
| 59 | Not only would he have to destroy all evidence of his old body , but somehow transport himself planetside without raising suspicion . |
| 60 | Providing there was no direct Chinese communist intervention he was utterly confident that in one year not only would he have secured the Tonkin Delta but would have completely eradicated the Vietminh from South Vietnam so that , by the spring of 1953 , the Vietminh revolt would have been stamped out . |