Example sentences of "and [n mass] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A salary of between £200,000 and £230,000 would put Mr George at the top of the Civil Service pay tree and on a par with senior City bankers . |
| 2 | And er of course the coffin 's left open and folk would go and |
| 3 | Maybe one day , she was thinking , her head and her hormones might agree over something ; and on that day the sun would rise and shine all morning , and fish would leap in the river , and all of her bills would turn out to be rebates . |
| 4 | I. If you took a farm somewhere on the lowlands on either side of the Pennines , the way you would choose your crops and livestock would depend largely on four things : ( i ) the soils ; ( ii ) the rainfall ; ( iii ) the urban markets ; ( iv ) what your neighbours did . |
| 5 | It was hoped that parents and staff would become more aware of the importance of sharing . |
| 6 | The car would pull up outside various shops and staff would come out to take her order . |
| 7 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 8 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 9 | My guess is that in about twenty or thirty years ' time , it would be reprinted and people would start to re-think , oh well , perhaps this is not so |
| 10 | Their way is n't our way-and , besides , give her money and people would talk . |
| 11 | I could go anywhere in the world and people would recognize me as an athlete . |
| 12 | As I saw it , they were either downmarket Wimpy bars or precious bistros where all you could hear were the sounds of the cutlery hitting the plate , and people would cough before speaking because they had n't said anything for such a long time , what with all the hush . |
| 13 | I thought ‘ interesting ’ and kept it for pet for about three weeks ; I called it George , and people would give me extra helpings ‘ because you 're eating for two now . ’ |
| 14 | The rowing standard at Henley is famous throughout the world and people would give their right oar to race on the course , it 'll be every but as hard out there this year as any other . |
| 15 | And people would know what you meant even if you did n't spell it right . |
| 16 | And if Elinor 's mother should break down he would sob operatically and people would say to each other , as he stood by the flowers afterwards , ‘ My , my . |
| 17 | Fittingly , after an ex-McCarthyite and Wolfhound have been peddling their wares , God Is My … stutter back to the ‘ C86 ’ era when Stump were taken seriously and people would bend their guitars into curious shapes without being openly ridiculed . |
| 18 | This intro on the piano was in its way a very formal announcement , and people would hear it over or under whatever other music was on , and the bar staff would turn the tapes down and then off , without anyone having to say anything , they would just do it . |
| 19 | All my programmes would have been working and people would have seen what I was trying to do . " |
| 20 | Quality would deteriorate and people would have less choice and therefore a less good service . |
| 21 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again . |
| 23 | And sometimes Madame would just decide that we all needed a change and there 'd be paint ordered and people would come in during the day and work for a couple of days and the whole place would be done out for a party or a festival . |
| 24 | And 70% would like to see more conductors on buses and guards on trains . |
| 25 | We could be proud of such an achievement because the tide could flow in and out , the natural environment would be enhanced , and the flora and fauna would flourish close to the heart of our great capital city . |
| 26 | Motor racing , however , extends beyond the world of high-powered McLarens ' , Williams ' and Ferraris ' : Britain 's Derek Bell and Belgium 's Jacky Ickx have shown a domination of sports car racing in the last decade that Fangio , Lauda , Prost and co. would have been proud of in Formula One . |
| 27 | The trees close to the house would shed their blossom and fruit would come , apples and cherries to be gathered and join the carefully stored pots in the bright kitchen . |