Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could you have done that would aid you remembering ? |
| 2 | I had the feeling that this was the kind of place no one would want me going to , although it was a perfectly innocent visit of curiosity . |
| 3 | And it would explain your having several months off . |
| 4 | Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it . |
| 5 | No-one in their right mind would consider one offering bad or indifferent food ! |
| 6 | And though there was something immeasurably sad about this hopeless daily wait , yet sometimes , just briefly , Creggan would catch her looking in his direction in a way that spoke of support and encouragement . |
| 7 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 8 | Er , I mean , we have met him , once or twice , but that 's as much as I can say , and it 's been er su such a span of time , that I do n't even know now , whether I would recognise him walking along the street . |
| 9 | For instance , among the beliefs in virtue of which I claim to know that Napoleon was a great soldier there may be one which is false , but which is so insignificant that my justification for believing that Napoleon was a great soldier would survive my changing my mind on that particular point . |
| 10 | This scheme would benefit anyone participating in the chosen activity not just Ottery youth . |
| 11 | When Theodor Heuss retired as President in 1959 Adenauer wanted Erhard to fill the vacant position , which would prevent him becoming Chancellor . |
| 12 | Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives . |
| 13 | The Iraqi complaint included full details about almost all the items stolen from its museums in the hope that this would prevent them falling into private hands or being auctioned , but according to the Director of the Iraqi Museum , Sabah Jasim , this effort met with failure . |
| 14 | She looked at Dan 's face , already dazed by tales of Moorish palaces and Roman ruins , and said yes , hoping that some sudden illness would prevent her going . |
| 15 | I think the bulge of the flywheel would prevent us making a straight plate to cover this aperture . |
| 16 | So , did you break your letter down into two parts … first , did you enquire whether there were any professional reasons which would prevent you taking up the appointment and , second , can I have the following information etc ? ’ |
| 17 | It is quite reasonable for a purchaser to assume that a vendor who sells land for a particular purpose will not do anything to prevent its being used for that purpose , but it would be utterly unreasonable to assume that the vendor was undertaking restrictive obligations which would prevent his using land retained by him for any lawful purpose whatsoever … |
| 18 | The authority 's agreement came after Sheriff Principal John Maguire at Stirling said ill-health would prevent his considering the interdict being sought by counsel for Mr Stewart , of Newtoft Farm , near Auchterarder in Perthshire . |
| 19 | ‘ I think the only thing now which would prevent his marrying her was if he discovered he was still in love with your niece . ’ |
| 20 | –One would show them falling at the usual speed and hear the laughs . ’ |
| 21 | It was a curious comment , when he would have already known that a Conservative Party election broadcast , The Journey , would show him rediscovering his south London roots from the windows of his prime ministerial limo . |
| 22 | If I actually met Mr Diamond , I would picture him clutching the bag and its contents to his chest . |
| 23 | As she silently squirms , I would swear her purpling head is expanding ; dumbly , her eyes seem to bugle the pressure within . |
| 24 | I got really fed up hearing it and thought that one more repetition would send me screaming down the street ! |
| 25 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 26 | Rumours of something new would send us rolling down the ever widening highways . |
| 27 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 28 | Trent found a boulder on the edge of the ravine which he prised loose so that a light push would send it crashing down the ridge and he hid one of the shotguns at the foot of a solitary pine . |
| 29 | As it was , I already knew of their resignation as both had phoned me to see if I would give them backing in a boardroom coup . |
| 30 | Sometimes at night this thought would rouse him screaming from his sleep . |