Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] would [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know that there 's men running clubs up there who would murder somebody like you or me would have a cup of tea ? |
| 2 | If there were some point under heated discussion , either he or I would write a letter to our own newspaper , using a Burmese pseudonym , and the other would answer it in the name of government . |
| 3 | Queen Margaret had already left in a blaze of colour , escorted by Catesby and Agrippa , riding along Ropery , then Vintry Street into Thames Street , where she would meet a troop of her brother 's royal serjeants at Castle Baynard . |
| 4 | There are two types of agencies where you would find a job . |
| 5 | Now Mr , in the light of what Mr has said , do you understand that if the structure plan key diagram was amended in that way , it will still yo leave you and your clients open to challenge , or you would have a better chance of challenging er the er preferred option of the County Councils at the next stage , which is either through the local plan channel or through the er the the planning application stage for the highway ? |
| 6 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 7 | If the average person fought any reasonably competent knifeman with bare hands , it 's unlikely that he or she would survive a determined effort to stab them to death . |
| 8 | An anchoress had to be a woman of means or she would become a drain on the community . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’ |
| 10 | She should n't run off with any of his old mates or she would get a good hiding when he came home . |
| 11 | Then we would move to a training ground in the foothills of the Alps at Canjuers , where we would spend a month away from the regiment and the barracks , and learning the basics of fieldcraft , tactics and shooting , and where we would spend a lot of time living outside as self sufficient soldiers . |
| 12 | Or we would wish a society like Iran with its shariah or Islamic law , which punishes thieves by cutting off their hands ? |
| 13 | It was the custom in Egypt , on the Friday after a body had been interred , for the women of the family to visit the tomb , where they would break a palm branch over the grave and distribute cakes and bread to the poor . |
| 14 | This was chiefly at the behest of the Home Office who , according to Dorothy Hardisty , ‘ urged that in their own interest [ Jewish children ] should not all be placed in cities like London or Leeds where they would form a conspicuous Jewish enclave ’ . |
| 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 | In November 1958 he told the Western powers that they must leave Berlin within six months and make it a ‘ free city ’ , or he would sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany . |
| 17 | Either he walked out of here with a deal for Simon Cormack , or he would need a police escort anyway . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew that Frank had to grow up , after five years , ’ said the star , ‘ or he would seem a complete idiot . |
| 19 | ‘ Thinking I would stretch the rules to suit myself is very different from thinking I would be so consumed by greed that I would commit a felony . ’ |
| 20 | My brother said that I would make a good banker . |
| 21 | If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ? |
| 22 | ‘ My imagination is n't so impoverished that I would invent a name like Jones , ’ she came back . |
| 23 | Today I decided that I would organize a little party tomorrow night . |
| 24 | It was to be filmed in a Spanish club off Oxford Street , and I promised my flamenco friend Nuria , who taught me all I knew for my part in the About Face playlet , Señor Duende , that I would don a leotard and flounce for her . |
| 25 | This does not mean that I like to be led by the nose , but only that I would appreciate a little extra guidance ’ . |
| 26 | At the time I told myself that I would take a train to Perpignan and from there explore the more accessible small seaside places just because they sounded nice and quiet and I had n't seen them before . |
| 27 | So much of modern astrophysics has sprung from the seeds of radio astronomy that I would recommend a session with this book for anyone currently involved in astronomy research . |
| 28 | We expected Michael Foot , Roy Jenkins and Tony Wedgwood Benn to stand , but when Denis Healey and Tony Crosland also announced they were candidates , my team calculated that I would lose a number of votes to them , for the three of us were close in our thinking and attitudes . |
| 29 | I thought that I would have a go at getting a pilot 's course , which I did — and was soon sharply put in my place . |
| 30 | She never dreamed that I would become a managing director ! |