Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Bill would perch me on the handlebars of his bicycle and we 'd spin along Lower Granton Road beside the railway lines , with engines and strings of wagons shunting dose to us and the engine-drivers shouting hello to Uncle Bill , and beyond them were the masts and funnels of ships in the harbour . |
| 2 | We I agreed with Dick well we both agreed that Bill would be with you and we 'd sort out Jack . |
| 3 | ‘ But he promised Nicola that she 'd take over Jane Pargeter 's presenter 's job ? ’ |
| 4 | I wonder if Margaret 's had to work she 'd come home Friday dinner , with that sickness and diarrhoea . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I 'd say perhaps Harry 's sunglasses and pen and belt were with Angela Brickell because she took them there herself . ’ |
| 6 | I would think so Robert . |
| 7 | Well you would think so Sandra |
| 8 | One of the new criteria , which would rule out Boston , New York and London as races with world record credentials , is that the start should not be further away from the finish than 30 per cent of the total distance run . |
| 9 | On political grounds , Major may decide against putting in either a strong right-winger , which would rule out Portillo and Howard , or such a pronounced left-winger as Clarke . |
| 10 | This would explain why Kopyion was not making any efforts to control the anarchy let loose across Nicaea . |
| 11 | This , the report claimed , would explain why Sophie-Liberté , apparently born during her mother 's supposed 29-month period of captivity , actually had the appearance of a four-year-old . |
| 12 | It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood . |
| 13 | Now she would know where Benny went and studied ; she would know the look of the place . |
| 14 | The exercise would tire him — that always helped : he would seek out Joanna once more and that , too , would do something to unlock this pain of want which would rise up in him from nowhere , and beat against the walls of his mind until he thought he would never be able to bear it . |
| 15 | I would spend hours cleaning the house and washing and ironing , as if scrubbing , polishing and filling the house with familiar clean smells would bring back Dick Barton days and cauterize my mother 's wound . |
| 16 | At nineteen Shallot was virtuous , a prosperous man soon to be a merchant prince who would show both Master Benjamin and the great Wolsey that he could rise without their help . |
| 17 | At first Clare kept in touch with Annabel after her sister returned to New York , but as her own life became increasingly difficult , she found herself unable to write the sort of letter that would prop up Annabel 's crumbling self-esteem . |
| 18 | Haines asked if I would ring up Max Aitken — whom he knew to be a very good friend — to ask him to dissuade his editor from publishing the story , which had until then been kept as a dark secret . |
| 19 | Fujimori had promised at that time that he would wipe out Sendero by the end of his mandate in 1995 . |
| 20 | Although one of the gowns sent by Tamar was quite deep brown in colour , the other was of a pretty shade of blue , which would set off Martha 's eyes , which were the same deep blue as her father 's . |
| 21 | Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity . |
| 22 | The judges handed the Tobacco Institute of Australia something of a pyrrhic victory when they said they would set aside Justice Morling 's injunction on the further publication of the advertisement on the legalistic basis that the Tobacco Institute of Australia had previously indicated to the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations that it would not republish the advertisement anyway . |
| 23 | Patten promised last year a paper that would set out Britain 's agenda for the environment to the end of the century . |
| 24 | With the issue of the chair still unresolved , the SDLP representatives withdrew temporarily from meetings on May 21 , saying that they would return once Brooke reached agreement with the Unionists . |
| 25 | The problem is elementary — 2 pubs , one name and a battle that would have even Baker street 's most famous resident seeing double . |
| 26 | We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office . |
| 27 | So the family agreed on a swap — Uncle Tommy would go there and Father would take over Sleetburn , which was rented from a man called William Hutchinson . |
| 28 | In practice this often meant that immature minds would take over Leavis 's own evaluations without relating them to their own experience of literature , resulting in the diffusion of callow or inept judgements that has been condemned from the right by C. S. Lewis and from the left by Catherine Belsey . |
| 29 | Nearer and nearer the squares came to the picture until there were only four left and Ferdinando made himself ready for the journey to Leghorn , where he would take over Gigia and Oreste from Mr Ogilvy , who continued to Rome , and see one to Florence and the other to Siena . |
| 30 | At the moment , the train is static in more senses than one , as fifty City office-workers try simultaneously to detach their ninety-per-cent nylon polyamide jackets , which have statically fused to their hundred-per-cent nylon polyamide shirts , resulting in a display of electrostatics that I 'm sure would surprise even Mr Van de Graaff himself . |