Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] was [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Anyone would think she was under threat of something .
2 It was a nightmare , anyone reading the papers would think I was on my last legs .
3 The equivalent Japanese , transported to modern Tokyo would think he was on a different planet !
4 Eleanor would think he was in a cancer ward and be impressed by his bravery and pity him .
5 The voice he puts on for the customers , you would think he was in daily contact with the Lord Mayor or the Duke .
6 If she has a job I would think it was in jeopardy by now . ’
7 With any luck Emily would think it was from their previous ride .
8 No answer from me — if there was an Umpire , he would know what was in my heart — instead I gave myself orders , pumping myself up with little pecks of the head : Concentrate .
9 But he knew he would not see them here — they were much further north and anyway he would know he was near them when the crows gave way to a different more sinister corvid-the hooded crows , the vicious crows whose kind had once nearly succeeded in killing Minch when she was trapped near Callanish .
10 When I was at school and I got a row , my mother and father would assume I was in the wrong .
11 But no woods were to be felled or venison taken in the districts claimed to be disafforested until the perambulations had been notified to the Council , which would decide what was to be done .
12 But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done .
13 Why such an effort was made to disguise the B–25 when reports would indicate there was at least one B–25 at Hickam during the actual attack is unknown .
14 Her hope that he would say it was for Berenice 's sake died as soon as it was born .
15 When his parents tackled him Iain would say he was in control .
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