Example sentences of "they would [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any of them would make you a better wife than I could . |
| 2 | However , doing them would make us feel better and re-energize us ! |
| 3 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 4 | And Phoebe was so relaxed that it actually amused her to realise that everyone who saw them would assume they were a boring married couple , English middle-class tourists . |
| 5 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 6 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 7 | Reversing the polarity of both thrusters would bring the vessel to a rapid halt ; swapping the polarity of just one of them would let it turn on a sixpence . |
| 8 | Perhaps one of them would allow her to see more clearly : the ghost in the land , or the child that she had been , or the old dog , or the rooks in the tall trees , or the woman … |
| 9 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 10 | ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’ |
| 11 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 12 | I am sure one of them would afford you the protection that you seek . |
| 13 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 14 | I have pressed the Minister on this matter both in correspondence and in a visit to the Department when he and his officials told me that they would reconsider it . |
| 15 | ‘ What an excellent product … its first use has prevented the bank foreclosing on a client when it seemed certain that they would wind them up ’ ( HBB Group of Chartered Accountants ) |
| 16 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 17 | Yet , presumably , they would want him to christen their baby ? |
| 18 | He was n't even sure that they would want him . |
| 19 | And sometimes it 's just the person or the family would come and they would want I think they used to by these from the shop . |
| 20 | I think the way we behave tells the other residents how we react when someone dies ; and so it 's almost like they 're watching us to see if we behave in a way they would want us to . ’ |
| 21 | said that they would want it increased by 2p and 11 per cent . |
| 22 | When eating , they would make him look as if he were gobbling . |
| 23 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
| 24 | The great danger of the proposals , I said , was not that they would fail to improve our schools , but that they would make them worse . |
| 25 | She did n't want false teeth ; they would make her look like an old maid . |
| 26 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |
| 27 | I had some material and they said they would make it up into a Kamiz for me , so next time I went there I took along a garment that fitted me . |
| 28 | When a sound start was then followed by a sparkling 80 from Richards , a classical 84 from Hooper and a thumping 72 from Marshall , with even Ambrose making 43 , we knew exactly what was what , and when Richards declared on the fourth evening at 448 for 9 , leaving England with a day plus 51 overs to survive , there were probably not many people who thought they would make it . |
| 29 | By saying the war was over , the territory pacified , they would make it so . |
| 30 | These villagers — of course they would make it their business to know anyone who was rich and whose father lived so near ! |