Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [Wh det] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through the short plane journey she 'd been imagining what it would be like to meet Rune again socially . |
| 2 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 3 | A meeting of the home and leisure safety forum heard more than 5,000 youngsters will be asked what they would do in a variety of risky situations and be given advice on the best responses . |
| 4 | From the end of William 's reign , when contemporaries talked of a struggle between Court and Country , they were describing what we would more readily recognise as a clash between Whigs and Tories . |
| 5 | They must have seen his lights for they were at the door , and a couple of minutes later he was in their brightly-lit living-room standing by a blazing fire and being asked what he would drink . |
| 6 | I had figures which actually showed what people were watching what they would do if you gave them five to seven more hours of spare time a week , all the things they would like to learn about that they have n't already learned about . |
| 7 | Beginning in 1970 , experiments in Oxford on sheep and monkeys have demonstrated that for several weeks before birth the foetus in the uterus makes periodic breathing movements , rather as if the developing foetus were practising what it would have to do immediately after birth , and that shortage of oxygen to the foetus arrested these breathing movements . |
| 8 | The Liberal Democrats are promising what they would do , but people should not be fooled into voting for them . |
| 9 | The only way to compare them is to calculate what they would be paying over the whole 25 years if neither of them moved from their present home . |
| 10 | Each team 's goal is to determine what it would have to do to be first class and then to handle things its own way . |
| 11 | Where the person ‘ is not in a position to express a view , the least unsatisfactory test is to ask what one would choose for oneself : would I choose death rather than have that sort of life ? ’ |
| 12 | He was wondering what it would be like to kiss her when Fidelma repeated her warning . |
| 13 | ‘ I was wondering what it would be like to battle with a marlin . ’ |
| 14 | Later , in a casual conversation during the School , he was asked what he would do if , one night , one of the young female students happened to wander into his room by mistake . |