Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she 'd do just the opposite , keeping him close and at the same time keeping a watchful eye on all he was doing . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I 'd wash away the soap and I 'd lick your breasts , suck on your nipples , ’ he murmured . |
| 3 | ‘ I know , ’ said Marian , smiling , ‘ it was the horses … their faces when they found you 'd cut loose the horses . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd have though the tulip in the coal scuttle , the tulips in the cauldron , I thought they 'd had it , they were lying down completely |
| 5 | After the curtain had come down and she 'd put away the props she hid in the extra 's dressing-room in case the reporter had changed his mind and dared to wait for her . |
| 6 | But he was not comfortable with sharing his secret until he 'd put twice the distance between his confession and their ears . |
| 7 | ‘ If no one else turned up we 'd play three pots in , at night we 'd get nearer the light in the pub car park and try to play in the pitch black . |
| 8 | He 'd hit exactly the tee-shot he wanted to — a high cut to gain maximum distance with the wind and finish on the right . |
| 9 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 10 | ‘ I would think just the sound of David Markham 's name would set him off . ’ |
| 11 | Initially , I would stress initially the reference side of has to be ten per cent of the the authorisation the best thing since sliced bread . |
| 12 | If this image were displayed using the methods described earlier it would lack very dark values ( 0–24 ) as well as medium to bright values ( 91–255 ) and would cover only the dark to medium grey range . |
| 13 | The Deputy Defence Secretary , Stane Brovet , expressed the Army 's concern that under a multiparty system the government administration would become politicized and that this would affect adversely the role of the Army [ see p. 37155 ] . |
| 14 | It was hoped that this simplification would enhance further the attractiveness of the SDR in both official and private transactions . |
| 15 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |
| 16 | These proposals would make either the site value or the capital value the basis for valuation . |
| 17 | All that would reinforce the particular policy to which my hon. Friend referred and would damage tremendously the prospects of the British people and destroy countless jobs . |
| 18 | CONSERVATIONISTS are opposing the extension to a large limestone quarry which they claim would damage irrevocably the Mendip Hills in Somerset . |
| 19 | It would lessen both the capital value and the size of the dividends gained by those who have made disproportionate gains from privatization . |
| 20 | G.J. Warnock , a distinguished post-war philosopher , offers a strange analysis of seeing which allows no place for judgement nor even the capability of it , as was the case with our driver , and which would include both the dog and the infant . |
| 21 | Gassendi spoke of our not knowing the corpuscular nature of things , the ‘ inner shrines ’ of nature , but only their appearances ; similarly , the ‘ gazing countryman ’ , as Locke calls him , would know only the clock 's outer show , and not its internal mechanism . |
| 22 | It would soothe away the worries that ached in his head , even on this hazy gold morning of early September , with a fine harvest coming and plenty of work for the young men in the new town . |
| 23 | Rumour had it that , particularly towards the end of the financial year when sales targets were a few thousand off and hopes of bonuses were beginning to fade , the sound of the office globe could be heard spinning as anxious sales staff searched the world for the magic market that would bring home the bacon . |
| 24 | On journeys , he would study both the red and the green Michelin guides , in search of gastronomy and culture , and sit in the back seat issuing careful instructions to the driver that ‘ in about a quarter of a mile you come to a place to turn right ’ . |
| 25 | The Commons leader , Tony Newton , said that , while the Government would study carefully the committee 's report , he did not anticipate the Chancellor 's changing his previous conclusion that no extra compensation should be offered beyond that already available by law . |
| 26 | A new study by two British economists shows that it would do just the opposite * . |
| 27 | We believe that the Labour party would do precisely the reverse . |
| 28 | In a year the shop would be no more , lorries would carry away the rubble to which it had been reduced , leaving a gap to be filled by yet another chain store . |
| 29 | Whatever the answers , the enemy must not discover these questions were being asked , for this would give away the landing areas of a future invasion . |
| 30 | Third , an option should be created whereby , if the directors themselves set out a full enough statement of their responsibilities , it would obviate entirely the requirement to describe directors ' responsibilities in the auditors ' report . |