Example sentences of "would [verb] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guppy could become bankrupt over the affair , and no profit would remain once he had provided the remaining cash to the court . |
| 2 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |
| 3 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 4 | She had made the mistake of assuming they would think as she did . |
| 5 | I would think if everything went right , it would be something like seven hours |
| 6 | I do not criticise , I merely observe ; and I 'm not sure what I would think if everyone lined the rail to admire the play of light on the water and started discussing Boudin . |
| 7 | I would think if she think 's she 's gon na be a bit nervous then I 'll get . |
| 8 | and you would think if you change every bloody thing out |
| 9 | I would think if you looked carefully you would find that most people are . ’ |
| 10 | I I I just wonder what the opposition would think if you decided that the criteria approach alone was not acceptable and you equally decided you had n't enough information to specify a location , where would that leave you ? |
| 11 | I wondered what on earth John would think if he saw all this ; his friends in church , many for the first time in years , strangers saying prayers for him , me weeping over his photograph . |
| 12 | Mrs Roberts advised her to mend her temper before her daddy came home , and asked what Parr would think if he caught her like a toddler in a tantrum . |
| 13 | Curious about everything ; about the men who paid so little attention to her , wondering where they were taking her ; about Allen , wondering what he was doing ; about the Friar and what he would think when he found them gone ; about herself that she should be so indifferent to her circumstances and so little fearful ; and a little curious , but least curious of all , about the Friar 's sack , curious as to why if it contained only the remnants of a meal he had been so concerned to hide it and so uneasy at leaving it in their care . |
| 14 | One of the reasons why Napoleon wished to retain close supervision of France 's foreign policy was his understanding of the difficulties which would arise once he began to probe the weaknesses of the European system established in 1815 and designed as a check to French ambition . |
| 15 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 16 | Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 17 | ‘ I would laugh if I saw pepper coming out of a fishtank . ’ |
| 18 | Said oh I thought oh Becky would laugh if I told her this . |
| 19 | You can perform relaxation exercises lying down but we would prefer if you try initially sitting in a comfortable armchair . |
| 20 | The MoD said it would comment when it had been able to study the report in full . |
| 21 | The Yek was dressed in silver silks so fine that Rostov thought that they would bruise if anything brushed against them . |
| 22 | But at this thought rage grasped her and shook her with red-hot hands , so that her eyes went dark and she found herself walking fast up the road , and then along another , and another , walking as though she would explode if she stopped . |
| 23 | These services of course have to be paid for and we do aim to keep the level of taxation as low as possible but of course we ca n't aim to bring it down as far as conservatives would want because we need , we in the city need , to spend money on things like the education fund without which it becomes a city less worth living in . |
| 24 | The ‘ heap ’ of important VAX announcements that Digital Equipment Corp said it would make before it reveals more Alpha RISC licencees ( UX 386 ) , will take place on July 7th . |
| 25 | He thought about the soaring , almost optimistic leap the Volkswagen would make as it cleared the edge of the cliff ( from Henry 's memory of it there was no safety barrier on that particular stretch of the Apennines ) . |
| 26 | ‘ There Can Only Be One ’ is an epic and yet , spookily , restrained pop song , the sort of record Marc Almond would make if he did n't like shouting so much . |
| 27 | But at a distance , and with some of the pressure off , Coleman began to wonder how much difference it would make if he did . |
| 28 | After that , Waits retreats into his usual ho humdrum bummed-out bluesywoozy alkie drone mode mood muzak , the sort of mozzery gushy mush your dog would make if it had vocal chords and could handle its drink . |
| 29 | A transformation has taken place in the productivity of British shipbuilding because of privatisation , because there was no bottomless pit to which shipyards could turn , and because of the sheer reality that none of those yards would exist unless there had been a quantum change in working practices . |
| 30 | What actually happened was that they would disappear before you got there . |