Example sentences of "[that] would [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only they had n't scrapped the old grammar school , ’ muttered Dr Frome , and Pumfrey saw that he was beginning to erect in his mind a structure of excuses and evasions that would justify him to himself . |
| 2 | Yes , to give him the chance to find the right one , the one that would stir him in such a way that he felt he could n't do without her . |
| 3 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 4 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |
| 5 | Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom . |
| 6 | By virtue of Core Rule 36 , many transactions which would fall full square within Core Rule 28 are exempted because the Chinese Wall serves to negative the firm , or certain individuals within the firm , of the requisite knowledge that would bring it within the prohibition contained in Core Rule 28 . |
| 7 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 8 | She felt that her heart would burst with the ache of love , and searched in her mind for words that would bind him to her and bring him back . |
| 9 | What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ? |
| 10 | Isabel had scarcely felt the fiery rush of blood to her cheeks , the quick involuntary swelling of her flesh , before fitzAlan wrenched his hand away , transferring the reins from the other as if that was the only thing that would prevent him from touching her again . |
| 11 | For if the student can retrieve an item by dialling a number , he still has to discover what number , and to conceptualize how he might arrive at the correct answer that would give it to him . |
| 12 | Like other writers at the turn of the century , Geddes and Thompson stressed the importance of women receiving an education that would fit them for motherhood , and of their choosing eugenically sound mates in order to ‘ beget supermen , of either sex , of course ’ . |
| 13 | The first of these , initially expressed in the letter from Lord Selborne , Minister for Economic Warfare , to the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , on 21 July 1944 , after the Cabinet decision on 17 July 1944 to hand back captured Russians if Soviet authorities requested [ KP 1 ] was the fear of many Russians of the fate that would await them on their return to the Soviet Union [ KP 2 ] . |
| 14 | I had to construct a model that would lead me to a series of questions that would have empirically testable answers which would allow me to deduce an answer to my original question . |
| 15 | ‘ I hoped you might tell me something that would lead me to Heather . ’ |
| 16 | If she ever believed that of him , she would weaken , give in to the powerful attraction , and then she would have to admit there were emotions behind that attraction , emotions that would lead her into heartbreak . |
| 17 | As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all . |
| 18 | The surface was badly pockmarked and the car bumped and bounced over the uneven thoroughfare , its journey only becoming smoother as they reached the main road that would lead them into Chichester itself . |
| 19 | They moved from cover to cover within the compound , advancing towards the rear of the battle , following the sounds that would lead them to their own side and to news of the day 's progress . |
| 20 | Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith . |
| 21 | Prime Computer Inc said it is continuing to weigh various capitalisation schemes , ‘ including capital market transactions ’ but would not confirm a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is in the midst of talks that would lead it to going public again , Reuter reports from Boston . |
| 22 | I think our survey showed it could be as high as fifty per hectare in fact , er but we did n't have a full response to the survey and er there 's nothing er in the results that would lead us to a conclusion that it should be lower or higher , so we 're quite happy to accept that assumption . |
| 23 | She had just stood there , scarcely able to breathe , and aware that only a hair 's breadth of control separated her from a fury that would shake her to her soul . |
| 24 | Tears burst from his eyes when we were leaving South American soil and stepping aboard the cargo ship that would deliver us in Panama . |
| 25 | Concentrations of PCBs in whales and dolphins have been found to be between five and 20 times the level that would classify them as toxic waste in the US . |
| 26 | Young Lisa Hammond 's survival depended on an operation that would leave her in pain and unable to move for six months . |
| 27 | This autumn the House of Lords will be asked to give people a legal right to choose between life and death in advance of any injury or illness that would leave them in a ‘ permanent vegetative state ’ . |
| 28 | So in small Japanese firms average tenure may be higher but only one in six men have the 20 years or more of tenure that would place them on the higher parts of their wage profile . |
| 29 | There are no provisions in the treaty that would exclude them from taking part in it . |
| 30 | And I could willingly kiss him , if I was n't sure that would shock him to death ! ’ |