Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 2 | Brian did not like parties , according to Alix , and had expressed fears that he would know nobody at the Headleands ' , but this was not so , for he had already engaged himself with his habitual courtesy with old Sir Anthony . |
| 3 | He said he was in contact with the Chief Constable of Warrington who told him that the Ball family would welcome him at the funeral , but only as a private individual . |
| 4 | For example , she considered Yardley 's Foundation Cream highly desirable , and would purchase it at every shop where it was to be found , with the consequence that she must have had dozens of pots stored , all drying up , in the limited accommodation provided in her billet . |
| 5 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 6 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 7 | No doubt he would see her at the vicarage . |
| 8 | What she needed was a weapon of some sort , something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise . |
| 9 | Frequently they would meet us at the Sunday-school gate , and we would go for a walk before tea . |
| 10 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 11 | ‘ From there , ferry and all , to the place where he was ambushed , would take him at the most half an hour . |
| 12 | When Inner City were taking off , people would phone me at the store and ask for Paris . |
| 13 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |
| 14 | They would sell it at the best price they could get for it . |
| 15 | Both states were regarded as not only undesirable but criminal : after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 , police prosecutions against homosexuals reached a peak in 1953/4 , while the scare headlines accorded by the press to the Clapham Common murder in the summer of 1953 lodged in the public 's heads the equation that people who wore Edwardian clothes would knife you at the drop of a hat . |
| 16 | He was pessimistic about Britain 's economic prospects and felt that a free-trade policy would leave her at the mercy of economic storms like that of 1931 . |
| 17 | Mr John Prescott , the Labour transport spokesman , said BR would lose £3.5 billion of public support by 1993 , which would leave it at the bottom of the international league for support and top for fares . |
| 18 | He feels it would put him at a disadvantage . |
| 19 | The key job , currently held by Michael Heseltine , would put him at the forefront of the drive to get the country back on course . |
| 20 | To pick and choose which plants they were going to eat would put them at a disadvantage since they would waste so much time looking for food , rather than eating it . |
| 21 | Efforts by the EC to introduce a tax last year were frustrated by the Bush administration 's opposition to the concept which European industrialists claimed would put them at an unfair disadvantage in world markets . |
| 22 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |
| 23 | Neal ( loc. cit. ) however , attributes to the mosaic " Corinian " affinities — notably , beige coloured background tesserae , as used at Woodchester — and , presumably , would place it at the border of the first and second quarters of the fourth century . |