Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] would [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wandjina or Vandjina would translate then as ‘ an initiated wise one ’ , a ‘ serpent ’ or spiritual instructor , and comply with the Aboriginal tradition concerning the Wandjina . |
| 2 | In the mid 1960s a dominant group of Kikuyu , who were close to the Kenyatta family , determined that neither Odinga nor Mboya would come close to the presidency . |
| 3 | On both issues , he suggested , reality had long outstripped British rhetoric and Whitehall would do better bargaining on details than cold-shouldering the whole process . |
| 4 | It was agreed that on R Pankhurst 's return from leave , he and CW would get together and draft a paper for Management Group . |
| 5 | It was arranged that they would take the horses down to the railway sidings where there was enough light from the warehouses to school in the evenings , and Biddy would come twice during the week and once at the weekend , for two hours each time . |
| 6 | A plan occurred to her ; she and Lucy would go away for a weekend to the heart of the country , roses round the door , and find out how they would be lovers . |
| 7 | Unless compensated , Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain would suffer mostly small net losses ; gains elsewhere would be correspondingly greater . |
| 8 | He declined to give details on the machine and Chen would say only that his new system is not the design that Cray Research Inc rejected , leading to Chen quitting Cray to start his own company . |
| 9 | It had been a long , hard day and Owen would have quite liked a whisky . |
| 10 | She thought Gloria and Seb would come straight home after the films , but Gloria was already there . |
| 11 | In the short term , the crowded encampments of GDR citizens in the West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw would have humiliatingly underlined the emptiness of next weekend 's 40th anniversary celebrations in East Berlin , which President Gorbachev is due to attend . |
| 12 | How many Northern Ireland Members who agreed with Labour Members and opposed the privatisation of Shorts and of Harland and Wolff would do so now ? |
| 13 | And Nicky would nod unhappily , although he did not really comprehend . |
| 14 | We close on Wednesday afternoons and every Wednesday Maurice and Alfred would come here for a sort of high tea , presided over by granny . ’ |
| 15 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 16 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 17 | Oh , but it would spoil Christmas — the last Christmas Day she and Susan would have together . |
| 18 | All she had to do was cross a couple of wires and George would become just another victim of a tragic domestic ‘ accident ’ . |
| 19 | The foul weather continued , and Paul would arrive home every night with his coat soaked and his shoes letting in water . |
| 20 | It had been arranged that I would remain in Johannesburg and Max would proceed ahead to Salisbury to see whether Ian Smith would wish to see me . |
| 21 | Although neither of them knew it , the Munich trip was the last expedition that Leopold and Wolfgang would make together . |
| 22 | Alekseev — reflecting the Soviet Union 's interests at the time — asked about diplomatic relations , but Castro would say only that ‘ what is fundamental now is not diplomatic relations . |
| 23 | But Britain would step tentatively out of recession next year , it predicted , with national output expanding 0.8pc after an 0.9pc fall this year . |
| 24 | But RCA would offer only a one-off payment of $1 million . |
| 25 | But Lugh would rise above it all , and would not bother to listen to complaints about who was getting larger helpings of stew , or who was having the most comfortable sleeping quarters , or even who was getting up a bit later than everyone else . |