Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The people did not see the two youths — but if they saw them now they say they would lynch them . |
| 32 | Athelstan promised he would do what he could and hoped to see her and her family as soon as possible . |
| 33 | Athelstan promised he would do something to help her and left quietly , the cope still round his shoulders , Crim jumping up and down in front of him all the way back to the church . |
| 34 | How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe ! |
| 35 | And next year 's student , or even next term 's , perhaps , depending on how quick you do it , your conversations , what you 're doing now , once they 're transcribed and put onto disk would be very interesting , because we 'll have a disk from our St Mary 's students , transcribed , because Steve promised he would get them all transcribed . |
| 36 | The ‘ fairly ’ was troubling but Wickham had to accept he would get nothing firmer . |
| 37 | They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building . |
| 38 | McMahon hardly considered it would do anything else : ‘ I sit here in my cell writing this , having served almost nine years of a life sentence for a murder I did not commit … |
| 39 | How was I to know it would give her a heart attack when it reacted unfavourably with some other medicine she was taking/ I only meant to give her a bit of discomfort . |
| 40 | He chose a stance high up in a plane tree where he knew that if they tried climbing he would see them long before they reached him . |
| 41 | Only those who really want it would buy it , saving you expense . |
| 42 | For him to brush it off in such a way — I do n't know what would make him say things like that , he 's the sort of man I just would n't expect to have … |
| 43 | When one quiet weekend this February Mr Grosz left the country on a short trip to Switzerland , little did he know what would await him on his return . |
| 44 | It is intended that the system of Special Discounts should continue in subsequent years , although the percentage discount and the rules by which policies will qualify may vary from year to year and the possibility can not be ruled out that circumstances may arise which would make it inappropriate to grant any Special Discount at all . |
| 45 | What you mean somebody would take it |
| 46 | It seems perverse , to say the least , to argue that criminalising some forms of behaviour ensures their survival and future usefulness ( or , conversely , that not criminalising them would guarantee their extinction ) ! |
| 47 | She might have resented his calm assumption that she would prefer to holiday in England at another time , but now it seemed nothing would affect her serenity . |
| 48 | Of course , I 'd broken the rule by moving both point cams , so no amount of re-reading them would position my pattern correctly . |
| 49 | If that happens I would think there would be a reasonable pro for succ reasonable prospect for success . |
| 50 | No doubt M. Chaillot agreed to my demand only because he imagined I would regard his acceptance of it as an incentive to call again . |
| 51 | I would do I would put it up there . |
| 52 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
| 53 | ‘ But I have given my word to la Principessa , I have said I would ask you to come with me , and you have agreed . |
| 54 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 55 | In some other cultures , there may have been socially validated ways of defining reality and of acting which would enable them to be less socially isolated , and therefore less neurotic because less privatized . |
| 56 | If a virus had begun to affect people who put crosses against Conservative candidates in general elections , I would presumably be arguing that this proved how immoral it was to vote Tory , but I hope nobody would believe me . |
| 57 | The only thing that I noticed which would annoy me if I were a glider pilot was that , engine off , the propeller does have a habit of rotating slightly . |
| 58 | Nigel believed she would assume he had something incurable with a shade of film glamour to it — leukaemia , perhaps . |
| 59 | Melville says she would prefer it if he said that they loved each other , and that subtle point is not lost on anyone . |
| 60 | As one who takes HRT , Marie Brown says she would recommend it to anyone . |