Example sentences of "[Wh pn] would [vb infin] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a gentle sweet old-fashioned thing who 'd do almost anything for me and I 'm devoted to him . |
| 2 | ‘ You know perfectly well that there are scores of women who would do literally anything for a night out , or in , with you . ’ |
| 3 | The undertaker was Mr Alan Anderson from the firm of Raines , joiners of Mickleton , who would carry out his duties with great delicacy , sympathy and understanding . |
| 4 | IT would be a nasty fellow who would kick away someone 's crutch . |
| 5 | ‘ There are many who would gloss over their less successful moments , possum , but I do n't . |
| 6 | Then there was a butcher , minus several bits of fingers , who would hold up his hand and joke , |
| 7 | He cuts an enigmatic and sympathetic figure : a recluse who would go around his palace incognito dressed as a groom ; a man who had his future foretold by Nostradamus ; who employed the English occultists , Dee and Kelley ; who dabbled in magic and yet was one of the greatest patrons of the Renaissance in Europe . |
| 8 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 9 | For the first two days of the four-day event each professional would be partnered by an amateur , who would play off his club handicap . |
| 10 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 11 | Unkind loyalists mocked him as ‘ not so much of a stalking horse as a stalking donkey ’ who would get only his own vote . |
| 12 | 33 , married to a long-distance lorry driver , twins , worked mornings in a local cafe , probably the only member of the group who would define both her family history and her own current social position as unequivocally ‘ working class ’ . |
| 13 | But who would there be to speak for me , who would take up my case ? |
| 14 | ‘ Who would have though there was so much sapient pearwood in the whole of the disc ? ’ he said . |
| 15 | So the first people who made films , the first people who invented the apparatus by means of which they could be made , were relatively simple showmen or photographers , or in certain cases like Edison , erm the , you know a professional inventor , who would use either his staff to develop a piece of apparatus , or would do it himself . |
| 16 | He liked to tell anyone who would listen where he was going and what he was doing , and so my mother found his silences ominously strange . |