Example sentences of "would [verb] [pers pn] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | These villagers — of course they would make it their business to know anyone who was rich and whose father lived so near ! |
| 2 | They told him they would do it their way . |
| 3 | There was intended to be time to descend , to retire through the covert and to supervise the fast , careful infill of stone that would give them their bridge when the walls fell . |
| 4 | for only a change of system would give them their chance . |
| 5 | would give us their backing and channels of distribution er we shall be in correct in direct competition with our competitors in the a areas which we consider to be most profitable . |
| 6 | Then police would know they had the power they need and motorists would know that just one drink too many would cost them their licence . |
| 7 | ‘ I am disobeying orders in conveying it to you — but there are some who regard Your Grace as their lawful monarch , though it would cost them their lives to declare as much openly ! ’ |
| 8 | Consequently they feared that " equal pay " would cost them their jobs . |
| 9 | WITH ALL THIS BRAVADO it 's rather ironic that none of the performers would tell me their real names . |
| 10 | Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ? |
| 11 | So he knew that if he instructed Marshalls to act for him they would charge him their normal fees for their work . |
| 12 | But a 2-0 defeat would lose them their place in the Wembley final . |
| 13 | Food and drink would be brought to me every day from all the villages , six hundred people would be my servants , three hundred men would make me a new suit , and six teachers would teach me their language . |