Example sentences of "they would [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally , after a dance , they would decide to go swimming in the early hours of the morning , so all the cars would be lined up with their headlamps blazing to light up the pool . |
| 2 | I 'm sure the system would have been implemented in the quarry , and they would 've suffered even worse than us . |
| 3 | They would 've understood . |
| 4 | Cos if they were trying to get peasant support and erm showing the importance of peasants instead of the United Front they would 've made it public . |
| 5 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 6 | Had somebody been in there to see they would 've spoken to them |
| 7 | They would 've looked at the lights , I know . |
| 8 | Measured by the middle group 's criteria they would 've had three then would they ? |
| 9 | I think the reason they probably did this because it 's , it 's , it was politically harder to do that , they would 've had to taken a lot more responsibility . |
| 10 | There would be a danger that although the authority reasonably suspected goods were dangerous , they would feel bound to delay serving a notice until they consulted the trader , whereas , without a duty to consult , they would have served forthwith . |
| 11 | There would be a danger that although the authority reasonably suspected goods were dangerous , they would feel bound to delay serving a notice until they consulted the trader , whereas , without a duty to consult , they would have served forthwith . |
| 12 | Several prime ministers made it clear that they would want to see a radical extension of the Community powers and resources to help poorer regions and social groups as they moved to monetary union . |
| 13 | You know with the and when she does n't know where she 's going to get enough money to feed , clothe them and especially at a time like now , when all these adverts are on television for , you know the toys that children want , and they just have n't the ability to provide those those things for the children , much as they would want to do it . |
| 14 | It 's not a bad place , but erm I think in common with a lot of other universities , well , all universities , some of the excitement , enthusiasm has gone , because people no longer have the chance to do what they would want to do . |
| 15 | Several of the teachers used ‘ group building ’ activities to help children to feel good about one another and about themselves , so that they would want to enjoy the social benefits of working together , as well as the benefits of sharing ideas . |
| 16 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 17 | Confronted with the question of early death or disablement , most farmers had an idea what they would want to happen to their farms . |
| 18 | They would want to constrain the manager in different ways . |
| 19 | And only a derisory 3% said they would want to live in Oxford after the war . |
| 20 | The question then would be how unions assessed the costs and benefits and whether they would want to pressure management to bear this cost in order that their members could enjoy the benefit of higher job satisfaction — possibly at the expense of their receiving lower wages . |
| 21 | After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’ |
| 22 | The poet 's wife was told when they arrived that they would want to film her . |
| 23 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future . |
| 24 | They would want to know where and how , would n't they ? |
| 25 | They would ask me for the pass I did n't have , then they would want to know what I was doing there . |
| 26 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 27 | And I do n't see why they would want to come in here . |
| 28 | But they , they 've got to start these younger people , although out there in there are a , a great number of ex-spoolers , but whether they would want to come back |
| 29 | The children were terrified when the flood happened and I just do not think they would want to come back . ’ |
| 30 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |