Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irina would companionably help out with the weeding , the tedious uncreative side . |
| 2 | WC apps : 7 The Scots are in their fifth successive World Cup and would presumably go along with the Olympian sentiment about taking part being more important than winning . |
| 3 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 4 | We support the commitment in that Agreement that ‘ any change in the status of Northern Ireland would only come about with the consent of the majority of the people of Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 5 | We support the commitment in the Anglo-Irish Agreement that ‘ any change in the status of Northern Ireland would only come about with the consent of a majority in Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 6 | The two governments undertook that ‘ … any change in the status of Northern Ireland would only come about with the consent of the majority of the people in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 7 | Lancashire Region to second and colleagues if , if all the other movers and seconders and the C E C speaker would all come down to the front it would help us enormously with time Yorkshire Region to move . |
| 8 | Until then he would just blend in with the walls . |
| 9 | ( Dana would never dream of doing such a thing — he would just take off into the void and somehow find his way around . ) |
| 10 | He promised himself he would not go up to the tower to observe the stars . |
| 11 | She would not go down for the fireworks . |
| 12 | Pro-Europeans were no happier as he stated that sterling would not go back into the ERM until changes were made . |
| 13 | After all , the money ‘ saved ’ would not go back to the LTA but would have been used to swell the amount available to be paid in appearance money to the two or three ‘ names ’ needed to start the telephones ringing in the box office . |
| 14 | Now , almost ten years , on farmers there say they would not go back to the days of Government subsidies and control over what can be grown . |
| 15 | But she decided Daniel 's frail body would not stand up to the painful general anaesthetics and blocked the treatment . |
| 16 | The reasons for the brutality and racism which are displayed every day at the ports of entry in Britain and at the British High Commissions in the Indian subcontinent are the laws themselves — laws which are seen as essential to wider government policy and which though blatantly racist ( in fact they would not stand up before the Race Relations Act ) were each introduced as a contribution to good community relations . |
| 17 | When Henry V died in Normandy in 1422 mos teutonicus was employed , as it was thought that conventional embalming would not hold out for the journey back to England . |
| 18 | She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … . |
| 19 | Led by Pavel Kohout , Vaclav Havel and other Czechs and Slovaks who would not buckle under to the regime imposed on Czechoslovakia by Brezhnev 's tanks in 1968 , the first permanent group of dissidents in Eastern Europe issued their statement of inalienable human rights at the start of the year — Charter 77 . |
| 20 | But , if so , it is hard to see how the dubitability of the non-basic beliefs which they support would not rub off onto the basic ones which support them ; surely falsehood in a non-basic belief would be a reason to doubt the basic beliefs which support it , once we have admitted that basic beliefs can be false . |
| 21 | He was being told in no uncertain terms that he could come out of all this as the loving , caring father who would do anything to keep his daughter 's reputation ; who welcomed her choice of husband with open arms ; who would not bow down in the face of adversity , but would rise up and conquer it . |
| 22 | The women , as usual , bore the brunt of it , for everyone stayed up late , children refused to go to bed at night and men would not get up in the morning . |
| 23 | Van Cheele 's old dog , when he saw the boy , had run away in fear and would not come back into the house . |
| 24 | But so many would not come back from the war . |
| 25 | He believed that socialism would not come about as the inevitable result of impersonal laws of economic development but would have to be built by active human beings working purposively and creatively . |
| 26 | There were moments when Henry thought she would not turn up for the funeral , so magnificent was she about the whole thing , but as the date approached he noticed she was wearing more and more black jewellery , black scarves , capes , cloaks and jerseys , stockings , blouses and hats . |
| 27 | We had a punchcard in class the other day which would not catch on to the ‘ cogs ’ and allow itself to rotate . |
| 28 | He would not put out of the power of his creditors the mental and literary resources which yet remained to him . |
| 29 | Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck . |
| 30 | The plane that would not take off without the khat |