Example sentences of "things would [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever . |
| 2 | If the ASB were to issue standards saying that all debts over three months old must be fully provided against , all stocks over six months old must be written down by 50% , and all fixed assets must be depreciated over five years , then things would have gone too far . |
| 3 | The youths , being Moslems , were not having this from any woman , even if she were a great lady , and things would have gone ill for Zeinab if Owen had not arrived at that moment , on his way to her flat . |
| 4 | ‘ If he had participated in that debate and gone through the moral and ethical gymnastics we were going through , I think things would have turned out very differently . ’ |
| 5 | If only she had listened more often to her voices , how much better things would have turned out to be . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's really strange , ’ he muses , ‘ I thought things would have died down by now , because I did the music such a long time ago . |
| 7 | Some months later , when she judged that things would have quietened down , she had come down to London and had set about re-establishing her business . |
| 8 | A year ago the recruitment agencies were optimistic that things would have improved by January . |
| 9 | If people had imagined in 1933 that things would have come to such a pitch , they 'd never have voted for Hitler . |
| 10 | Things would have kindled if they could have demonstrated , or if Prince Charles could have uttered a single sentence of political substance . |