Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birdwatchers had always worried terribly about what would happen to Brownsea after the owner , Mrs Bonham-Christie , died . |
| 2 | They had not worried for themselves , only about what would happen to Emily . |
| 3 | They were worried only about what would happen to the monetary value of the paintings and their business as dealers . |
| 4 | P.B. All of this , which would go I think contrary … much of it would go contrary to the basic Catholic belief . |
| 5 | no gently with her would you ? |
| 6 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 7 | Any spillages on the skin should immediately be washed with lots of water just like one would do with bleach . |
| 8 | Well I suppose she 'd get away with it would n't she ? |
| 9 | Perhaps the time spent away from him would help her regain some control over the wild emotions roiling inside her . |
| 10 | Before doing any deal , Hewlett-Packard would have to weigh whether it would gain more from what would effectively be privileged access to Siemens ' customers than it would lose in self-impact on its already strong position in western Germany . |
| 11 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 12 | Not many teams beat the City on their own ground … and early on you would n't have given much of a price on United … |
| 13 | Oh yeah I I both of us would would be always recording and singing what we like ourselves you know . |
| 14 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 15 | On teaching practice the students operated quite differently from what would have happened under the old system . |
| 16 | There has been difference of opinion not merely over the content of any explanation , but also over what would count as an explanation . |
| 17 | The year before in the Pit , we 'd talked often about what would happen when we went home . |
| 18 | But the co-ordinating and overseeing role of the CPSU at all levels of Soviet society , and its bureaucratic control , went far beyond what would be expected in a liberal democracy . |
| 19 | Beyond this point he would observe something very strange : the area of the spherical surface would decrease , until when he had travelled twice as far to he would find that it had shrunk to nothing . |
| 20 | By the time when he began to work most intensively on what would become The Waste Land , Eliot was neither god nor martyr . |
| 21 | Sarah talked excitedly about what would happen when I became pregnant — what a wonderful child we would have , and all the things we could teach him . |
| 22 | If the pinches of flake were thrown over any other bream 's head then that fish would veer to one side , but only the bream immediately alongside him would react , and then only to get out of the way . |
| 23 | It applies equally to what would once have been obtaining by false pretences , if , as is here the case , the requirements of section 1(1) are also satisfied . |
| 24 | Branson protested loudly to whoever would listen : the Virgin fare was a ‘ realistic ’ one , which reflected his airline 's lower overheads . |
| 25 | Faced with opposition from his own forces , Franco was not guided by ideological principles nor personal loyalty , but purely and simply by whatever would keep him in power . |
| 26 | It follows that even by she would again have finished her degree in the Summer of nineteen ninety two . |
| 27 | It 's just a fact , nobody could predict it and there for nobody would be liable . |
| 28 | Crushed tightly together , the mass held its ground stolidly , and watched curiously for what would happen next . |
| 29 | Those who spoke ill of him would find it difficult to continue such activity without a jaw to move , he considered , and made a mental note to put one of the Secte Rouge in charge of security . |
| 30 | Ahead of them would be the road that would lead to the Fire Court of the sorceress Reflection and her daughter Flame . |