Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] would [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea has proved popular among villagers , many of whom would like to see a return to the days when they could safely leave their doors unlocked . |
| 2 | We 're looking for six pairs of women — friends , mother and daughter , sisters , it does n't matter — both y of whom would like to have a radical new haircut , maybe a perm , or even a change of colour . |
| 3 | They could be constructed by random surveys of a general practitioner 's practice population ( culturally valid ) , most of whom would have had personal experience of common conditions . |
| 4 | Apart from anything else , if prisons were places where criminals had to work , fewer of them would want to go to prison . |
| 5 | Any one of them would love to take away the £1,000 winner 's cheque , won last year by Bristol Amalgamation , but first they 'll have to beat the other hopefuls on what could be a bumper match . |
| 6 | If groups of , say , 50 to 100 people were to be asked how many of them would like to see some deregulation on Sunday , only about half would put up their hands ; the other half would want to keep Sunday special . |
| 7 | I said that if any of them would like to come and see me at home , I would explain exactly what was happening . |
| 8 | Changing out of them would risk destroying the brand image they 've developed over 20 years . |
| 9 | If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special . |
| 10 | ‘ All the thieves in London know where he lives , but none of them would dare to rob him . |
| 11 | Excluded , naturally , from the better parties , some of them would attempt to get on terms with their social superiors by bursting in with a search warrant in one hand and evidence in another , which they would produce from nowhere like cabaret artists plucking doves out of the air . |
| 12 | have there been , to its knowledge , rights exercisable by or on behalf of two or more limited undertakings which if exercisable by one of them would have made the company a subsidiary of it , nor |
| 13 | Either of them would have grabbed the hand . |
| 14 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Neither of them would have engaged you . |
| 16 | The Government points out that , for example , although this group would have lost entitlement to supplementary assistance , 1.2 million of them would have gained entitlement to standard housing benefit . |
| 17 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 18 | Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark . |
| 19 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 20 | More of them would have obtained jobs . |
| 21 | If he categorically refused to work in the same Laboratory as Lorrimer , one of them would have to go . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 23 | In ten years of programming I now have many companies utilising database applications for names and addresses , every one of them would have benefited by including Rapid Address within the database . |
| 24 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 25 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 26 | The director of the museum , Mr H. Bakker , visibly relieved to have all the originals safely returned to their shelves , told The Art Newspaper that each one of them would have provided enough money to buy a comfortable family home . |
| 27 | ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister . |
| 29 | How many of them would have thought of the Turin option ? |
| 30 | Any one of them would have promoted him instantly into mainstream Hollywood and even some of his friends thought he was mad . |