Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day before — Friday — Nutty ordered them all to go to bed early , and meet at the refrigerator factory where Mr Singh would pick them up at 8.15 after they had got the horses ready . |
| 2 | The Sheikha would know what she could spend on gifts for her prospective daughter-in-law ; the son would be given a budget for his bride house . |
| 3 | But she knew that no amount of speed would save her . |
| 4 | To give the dream words would warn his pursuers . |
| 5 | But fever , at least , was an opponent she could fight , and action would stop her from thinking . |
| 6 | However , Mr Cooper said industrial action would achieve nothing but cause job cuts and benefit competitors . |
| 7 | This course of action would expose them to the prospect of mounting fines and eventual seizure of assets . |
| 8 | It would not necessarily be capable of moving debris , but any debris lifted by wave action would have its direction of fall influenced by the direction of the bottom current . |
| 9 | This young woman , however , did not believe this course of action would solve anything . |
| 10 | In the two West Midlands boroughs there was a clear tendency for the Conservatives to do better and Labour worse than a similar examination of a wide range of ward social characteristics would lead one to expect . |
| 11 | Up in the balcony Jock Lennox applauded , and some of Rafferty 's regulars laughed as Paddy gathered the little child up in his arms as easily as his heavy vestments would allow him . |
| 12 | In keeping with the policy of the Executive Committee that , in joining Congress , the Association would play its fullest part , the General Secretary , Ciaran Ryan was nominated for a seat on the Executive Council of Congress . |
| 13 | We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice . |
| 14 | Dexter guessed why : Lancaster had been ruffled by her questions and the interruption would allow him to regain his composure . |
| 15 | Eventually agreement was reached that a Committee of Enquiry composed equally of AFPFL members and representatives of the hill peoples would ascertain their true wishes . |
| 16 | None yet knew which side would fulfil which role . |
| 17 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
| 18 | It 's funny how an animal like a cow or a horse would swim you would think it would be |
| 19 | As I shall illustrate later , that cost could not be met , and I do not think that Labour would do it . |
| 20 | It is clear only that Labour would threaten our achievements , undo our reforms and hamstring Britain . |
| 21 | The Dumbarton MP , John McFall , shadow Scottish home affairs spokesman , accused the Government of failing to carry out its manifesto commitment to change the law and stated that Labour would introduce its own bill if the Government refused to make space for the legislation . |
| 22 | I thought Dave said Jeff would clean them ? |
| 23 | Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien — Parti du travail said that the " regime appears to be using stalling tactics to push it back as far as possible " and that the opposition would increase its activities to press for the conference to be convened earlier . |
| 24 | Maybe fitting a VL-bus network interface card would restore its network performance . |
| 25 | Most of the away fans would make it down in time for the game and little else . |
| 26 | Really though unless we signed Giggs or Hughes the Leeds fans would roast them . |
| 27 | Mr Savage , like Mr Yates , is an original , but only his most devoted fans would think him a lovable one . |
| 28 | Koloto and Paul Moriarty already missing , our fans would crucify us if Harvey was injured while in Australia . ’ |
| 29 | So now Winter , who was fourth official for the 1989 FA Cup final , can look forward to the ‘ delights ’ as the fans would call them of places like Rochdale , Bury , Halifax and Preston . |
| 30 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |