Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morton saw that Leonard and Mrs Cohen were very close , and nothing emphasised this more than her willingness to take them and their friends out for meals , especially to a favourite Greek restaurant where she would be the life of the party , not least in singing , and encouraged by good wine which the restaurateur would ply them with in order to get the mood of the evening going . |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on its true construction section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 did not confer on a minor who had attained the age of 16 an absolute right to determine whether or not he received medical treatment but enabled him , for the limited purpose of protecting his medical practitioner from prosecution or from any claim in trespass , to give consent to such treatment as effectively as if he were an adult ; that , although a minor of any age who had sufficient maturity might consent to treatment , his refusal to give consent could not overrule consent given by the court ; that in exercising its inherent jurisdiction the court would take particular account of the minor 's wishes , the importance of which increased with his age and maturity , but would override them where his best interests so required ; and that , having regard to the nature of W. 's illness and to the serious deterioration in her condition , her best interests required the court to direct her immediate transfer to and treatment at the new unit without her consent ( post , pp. 765G — 766A , H — 767C , 768F–G , 769G–H , 770B–D , 772A–C , D–E , 774C–D , 775H — 776A , E–F , 777F–G , 779A , 780B–E , G–H , 781B–E , H — 782A ) . |
| 3 | How grandly I would inscribe it … |
| 4 | You 'll remember yesterday that we had the collection for the Crawley Strikers and that the General Secretary , rather , I was gon na say foolishly then , generously er said that we would double whatever was collected . |
| 5 | He added that the USA would double its assistance to black South Africans to US$80,000,000 for housing , economic development and education programmes , and he called on the international community to support the process of political change . |
| 6 | With a move to new premises which would double its audience capacity in a city not noted for enthusiastic theatre-going , the company needed to retain its existing audience while attracting new theatre go-ers to fill additional seats . |
| 7 | I saw that he could not marry a woman of his own generation , for that would double his chances of seeming old . |
| 8 | Every hour the assistant on duty had to read the instruments , make a note of the wind speed and direction , the visibility , the cloud , precipitation ( if any ) , and whether the barometer was rising or falling , and then stand by to teletype the details in code to Group Headquarters , who in turn would transmit it to Bomber Command . |
| 9 | The boy was pictured in a stilled movement that clearly represented the brief moment before he reached out and reached down to pluck the flower , a movement which would topple him over the edge to certain death . |
| 10 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 11 | We could refurbish it and it would remain your property , a place of your own to go to whenever you so desired . |
| 12 | What had passed through his mind in the baggage-room at Royalbion House would remain his own personal secret . |
| 13 | ‘ We thought that they would throw everything at us from the start , ’ said Andy Probert , 38 , the Cambridge cox — and so it proved . |
| 14 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 15 | ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’ |
| 16 | And Courtney would throw her arms around her and kiss her all over her face and never let her go . |
| 17 | The patient is moved forward in the chair , and he holds his hands clasped together , to avoid the temptation of pushing himself off his chair , or pulling onto the other chair , which would throw him off balance and increase his spasticity . |
| 18 | The Shah himself could not believe that Hassan would throw him out . |
| 19 | The president of the European Commission , Mr Jacques Delors , was said to be delighted that Bonn would throw its weight behind a more rapid move to the controversial , supra-national stages of economic and monetary union . |
| 20 | He had an idea that Dinah might not be permitted to open her own letters , or perhaps would throw them aside if there were too many admirers ; but surely she would take notice of the sketch . |
| 21 | He would give the game away within the first hour and Felipe de Santis would throw them out . |
| 22 | And then she felt someone holding her and she had to fight ; they would throw her over too . |
| 23 | It made sense to assume that Yuan and Zukov would throw themselves to the right of the line of fire , but he did not wait for them to act . |
| 24 | By day Hayling would help organize the workers at Langley , and in the evenings he would throw himself into pressure-group work . |
| 25 | What safety they offered was debatable , but if worst came to worst he would throw himself beneath a car , and deny the voiders the entertainment of his slow demise . |
| 26 | He remained keen on jiving and would throw himself all over the place , hair wild and eyes sparkling . |
| 27 | it would throw me completely if you put , if you changed some of the number plates over . |
| 28 | Possible , but if I was a BNP yob I 'd think he was taking the piss and would throw something , and if I was n't , I might throw something anyway because nationalism stinks — keep those ‘ Ethnic Cleansing ’ concentration camps in your mind . |
| 29 | You know , but again , you know , I would throw mine away . |
| 30 | He always stored it behind the pipe and when Uncle Philip found it , he would throw it out onto the landing and jump up and down on it . |