Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought it unlikely that he would marry again , but nothing between them would change , however many wives entered , or attempted to enter , his life . |
| 2 | And are these , all these peop people you 're telling me about they would just walk around and sleep wherever they could ? |
| 3 | However erm if if you as a panel are one minded to go for the new settlement option and two , er minded to make a ren recommendation about particular geographical locations or sectors , erm I for one would be very concerned that this would be done on the basis of of insufficient technical erm information . |
| 4 | I mean if it is helpful and Mr and I did have this discussion in the pre-meeting that we had , er certainly if you wish to recommend that the d that the stars on the the diagram were to be changed er just simply to show one star instead of a route , then I for one would be quite happy with that . |
| 5 | Erm I for one would certainly go anywhere to see the English beat the Italians . |
| 6 | Erm I for one would certainly go anywhere to see the English beat the Italians . |
| 7 | Well it does seem that women are most unrepresented , and I for one would recommend positive discrimination . |
| 8 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's only after that that someone like myself would look for technical skill , but it has to have that initial force to grab your attention , 99% of the time . ’ |
| 10 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , and you proved to be a warm and funny companion , gentle and sweet , and I was intrigued to discover why someone like you would pursue a man . |
| 12 | In 1921 , Siqueiros had urged artists to ‘ avoid those lamentable archaeological reconstructions ’ ( ‘ Indianism ’ , ‘ Primitivism ’ , ‘ Americanism' ) but he had also warned against the use of ‘ archaic motifs ’ from the old masters of European art ‘ which for us would be exotic ’ ; instead his advice was to study the arts of both , learning from the ‘ constructive base ’ , the ‘ great sincerity ’ , of the latter , and the ‘ synthetic energy ’ of the former , to combine the ‘ lost values ’ of the past with new values to produce an art appropriate to modern America . |
| 13 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 14 | Atkinson , matching his attacking partner goal for goal , belted in the fourth from 20 yards , and the only question remaining after the most one-sided of first halves was which of them would be first to his hat trick . |
| 15 | As Cliff Bastin later recalled : ‘ Relations between these two had gradually been becoming more and more strained , until it ultimately came to a point at which the question was which of them would be the first to vent his feelings on the other . |
| 16 | Naked women cycled energetically round an indoor track as spectators placed bets on which of them would reach orgasm first from the rubbing of clitoris on saddle . |
| 17 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 18 | Consider the variety of ways in which humans spend their time and ask which of them would have value if they occurred , miraculously , in a kind of vacuum . |
| 19 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 20 | Which of you would like coffee and what kind ? |
| 21 | ( If our motives had to be completely pure , which of us would pass the test ? ) |
| 22 | ‘ I can well imagine that somebody like you would strike a woman . |
| 23 | What 's more important getting that level and putting that right or getting the bottom level which to me would be more important |
| 24 | If he never said it again , the way he had just expressed himself to her would last for the rest of her life . |
| 25 | Methodically , meticulously , he studied every aspect of Kylie 's talent and music before committing himself to what would have been one of the most ambitious projects even he had attempted . |
| 26 | the privilege of , of them like you would have a shed in your garden |
| 27 | The things he could tell you about her would make your hair curl . |
| 28 | He was cheered by 3,000 people , almost none of whom would qualify for abode or refuge under the current package . |
| 29 | I do n't know , but anyone who says they were had better contend with lawyers hired by scribes such as Stephen Pile , P J O'Rourke , Matthew Parris , Patrick Collins , Peter Tinniswood , Clive Anderson et al , none of whom would be amused by the suggestion that their work was anything other than top-notch . |
| 30 | Later in 1987 , the picture surfaced in London , being peddled around to various dealers , none of whom would touch it . |