Example sentences of "[Wh pn] would [vb infin] [adv prt] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ There are many who would gloss over their less successful moments , possum , but I do n't . |
| 3 | Then there was a butcher , minus several bits of fingers , who would hold up his hand and joke , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But who would there be to speak for me , who would take up my case ? |