Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pron] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would , it 'd make it it 'd make it well , it 'd just transform it , I mean , just no two ways about it , I think . |
| 2 | I 'd know what I could buy , how long it would take me to save for something … a new dress or whatever . ’ |
| 3 | Aghast at the roll-call of drunks , adulterers and pederasts that Central Office had fobbed off upon him , the baffled chairman turned to Cooper-Key and asked ‘ I do n't suppose by any change you 'd consider it yourself would you ? ’ |
| 4 | But then again , when I was a a small boy the university professors that were interested in me told my father I 'd do what I would have to do in my mid-forties . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're very sorry and we 'd do anything we could to get Nigel back and the situation restored . ’ |
| 6 | You 'd slay them you would ! |
| 7 | " Oh , " Quiss said , shaking his great bearded head quickly as though the whole subject was of too little consequence to be worth discussing , " they said they 'd see what they could do . |
| 8 | I 'd follow anyone who can do that . |
| 9 | Next I 'd like whatever you can find on someone called Hennessy . |
| 10 | I believe in wearing what you feel comfortable , you work better and er like the block , well you 'd , right after we 'd cut anything we 'd just |
| 11 | He said I could never replace her he said e nobody is to she is he said I just could n't , he said I 'd you know , I 'd pay what I 'd have |
| 12 | They 'd tell you they would n't do your job , and you 'd tell them you would n't do theirs ! |
| 13 | You 'd tell me I 'd go blind . ’ |
| 14 | They 'd tell you they would n't do your job , and you 'd tell them you would n't do theirs ! |
| 15 | He 'd play — yes , but he 'd play for them , for these stricken people ; he 'd play something they 'd know , something that might lift their hearts in their plight and strengthen them to defy their oppressors . |
| 16 | She 'd let him he 'd be . |
| 17 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |
| 18 | If I 'd hit you you could n't have looked more stricken . |
| 19 | The Sheikha would know what she could spend on gifts for her prospective daughter-in-law ; the son would be given a budget for his bride house . |
| 20 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 21 | Sir Patrick and Foreign Affairs Minister Dick Spring said that they would do everything they could to try to bring about an early renewal of the talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |
| 23 | Since paraprofessional social welfare personnel are an important resource for meeting people 's needs , one would assume that policy makers , social service administrators and professional social workers would view them in this light and would do what they could to support and develop this valuable resource . |
| 24 | As well as the letters that poured in , the other guests on the programme had all said privately that they would do what they could to help ; Ian Hislop , the editor of Private Eye , had already printed a Friends of John McCarthy ad for free , and Gerald Scarfe had agreed to design a programme cover for the upcoming Benefit . |
| 25 | When the time came she would do what she could to help . |
| 26 | Just the same , she had made a promise and would do what she could to keep it . |
| 27 | I gave her all the papers , and erm , she said well , and that meanwhile had , spoken to me on the phone , and said she would do what she could . |
| 28 | Lucas knew Lord Halifax from his university days and now wrote to tell him that Ramsey was the man whom the diocese wanted as its bishop , and hoped that Halifax would do what he could with Winston Churchill . |
| 29 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , he would do what he could to help her , and would frankly face the fact that her presence gave him enormous pleasure . |