Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without food taxes , he would have nothing to offer the Dominions to induce concessions in return and it would be impossible to advocate the policy with the fervour that would alone enable it to challenge the distribution of wealth as the central political issue of the future . |
| 2 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |
| 3 | But he was not too worried ; he had had enough of worry for one morning ; if it came to the worst he would just report it stolen . |
| 4 | Although Nelson is probably right to say that the DUP had lost its role ‘ as the articulator of poor Protestants ’ social grievances ' by the end of the 1970s , this would not cost it votes until there was an alternative . |
| 5 | A freshly bought loaf , still warm from the oven , smells and tastes delicious — but we would not expect it to taste good a week later . |
| 6 | Then , all the weight in the world on the wing-tip would not stop it going over . |
| 7 | It is pointed out , for example , that if a government , having lost the confidence of the House , attempted to continue in power in breach of that convention , it would ultimately be forced to act illegally as Parliament would not grant it supply . |
| 8 | There was a drought at the time , and the crowd declared that " God would not suffer it to rain till Bulcamp Hell was pulled down " . |
| 9 | There was a core of cold rage within him , but he would not allow it to fill him yet ; he would wait till the end . |
| 10 | She would not allow it to open up and expose her directly to the moon , and to the distant but approaching dragon . |
| 11 | The taxi driver , a soberly spoken old man , was clearly worried and would not have it brushed aside . |
| 12 | But there are many people who would not find it fulfilling to be themselves at any cost and at the expense of another . |
| 13 | Stapleton would not let it go out unless he thought Sir Henry was there . ’ |
| 14 | But Johnny would not let it rest . |
| 15 | He portrayed himself as victim of imperialism , as a man who had suffered in the struggle against colonial rule , but who would not let it beat him . |
| 16 | She would not let it beat her . |
| 17 | For the beings who had created it and would not let it die . |
| 18 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 19 | So was the economy , but he would soon teach it to rise above itself . |
| 20 | The letter does not make specific the details of the matter , as one would hardly expect it to do , but Miss Kenton states unambiguously that she has now , in fact , taken the step of moving out of Mr Benn 's house in Helston and is presently lodging with an acquaintance in the nearby village of Little Compton . |
| 21 | The other three people all run around screaming — quite fast , admittedly , but you would hardly call it scuttling . |
| 22 | So she I think she 's erm , she would n't want it done just a few days before anyway she 'd have |
| 23 | Because I care about him and last year he got terribly hurt and I would n't want it to happen again . |
| 24 | ‘ We would n't want it to go wrong , ’ said Garvin . |
| 25 | Yet ’ — her voice became serious — ‘ I would n't want it to end anywhere else but here ’ — she now looked about her — ‘ with the hills behind me and the river at me feet , so to speak . ’ |
| 26 | Margaret Telford ( Mrs Woolley ) regretted not having returned after the war to complete Greats , but has ‘ had a thoroughly happy life and would n't want it altered ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ We would n't want it to get out . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It would n't make it taste better if I owned it . ’ |
| 29 | I would n't expect it to compete for the funnel-web spider ‘ small but deadly ’ award in the same way that a Mesa Boogie .22 could , but look at the price difference and you 'll appreciate why . |
| 30 | We have returns so far from sixty five per cent of the schools and we expect to have the remaining schools before the end of the month , I would n't expect it to change from where we are at the moment but if there was a significant variation then I will be in a position to report back to the Policy Committee at the end of the month but I 'm , I 'm not expecting that need be the case . |