Example sentences of "[noun prp] would [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no way she was going to get her husband to America , and Nellie would like to have gone . |
| 2 | Nellie would have liked Liam to have opened his next branch in New York , just to give her a chance of seeing her brothers and Noreen , but Liam had been adamant . |
| 3 | Borja announced on Jan. 18 , 1990 , that in order to concentrate on domestic economic and social problems Ecuador would seek to negotiate a 70 per cent reduction in principal payments on its $11,100 million foreign debt in line with the " Brady plan " for voluntary debt reduction [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 4 | Corbett would have packed his saddle bags immediately and left but Maeve was insistent he wait until the rain storm abated . |
| 5 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 6 | This meant a descent and , had we been going on through , the Pyrenees would have grounded us . |
| 7 | I have a strong presentiment that , had the opportunity arisen , Lord Mansfield would have seized it to establish the law in this form . |
| 8 | Sir Robert pledged that Walker would continue to operate as an autonomous business and ruled out closures in its network of distribution centres . |
| 9 | He 's so happy , England centre-back Walker would like to stay in Italy for the rest of his footballing life . |
| 10 | 19 Walker would have loathed such an association . |
| 11 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 12 | Controversy surrounding US assistance was heightened on Oct. 29 after Interior Minister Zahid Sarfraz suggested that Pakistan would stop paying interest on US loans if the US failed to resume economic and military aid . |
| 13 | Another wicket now and Pakistan would have had their thumbs on the jugular . |
| 14 | I shudder to imagine what Picasso would have thought had he known that ‘ Guernica ’ would arrive in Spain under a monarchy , protected by the Guardia Civil , with Calvo Sotelo as prime minister and a priest as director of the Prado , his painting encased in a glass urn guarded day and night by machine-guns , and , years later , at the whim of an anti-Marxist Socialist government , in a bullet-proof fish tank . |
| 15 | His love for Edmund is a trust that the bastard exploits , planting a false letter , which he backs up with false testimony , alleging that Edgar would wish to oust his father , a hypocrite 's typical inversion of the truth . |
| 16 | At a press conference on March 7 Prince Saad said that Kuwait would continue to provide assistance to Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories , regardless of the stance of the PLO during the Gulf conflict . |
| 17 | Mountbatten 's report makes it plain that MI5 and MI6 believed that the KGB would attempt to keep in contact with Blake . |
| 18 | The KGB would have to sort itself out . |
| 19 | Ideally , the KGB would have liked to have swopped Blake . |
| 20 | He did n't expect to find any as the hotel had recently been refurbished and the KGB would have used the latest available technology , burying it in the plasterwork , the heating and the plumbing . |
| 21 | ‘ And I 'm writing a book on Edith Wharton , ’ she said desperately , doubting whether Veronica would have heard of her . |
| 22 | The task of organizing her grandmother 's funeral had fallen to her a couple of years before and , although the present situation was bound to be more complicated , she had a fair idea of the steps Veronica would need to take . |
| 23 | Earlier yesterday an Inkatha spokesman had said he did not think Mr Mandela would dare to attend the funeral . |
| 24 | Had the Social Democrats won in East Germany , Mr Gorbachev would have gained himself a valuable ally . |
| 25 | West German officials imagine that the Russians were particularly keen for an end to the crisis because President Gorbachev would have disliked attending East Germany 's 40th anniversary celebrations on Saturday while this spectacular testimony to his hosts ' illiberalism continued . |
| 26 | Mr Gorbachev would hate to destroy his efforts to persuade the world that Russia is cuddly by sending tanks on to East European streets . |
| 27 | They were n't used to the cheek-by-jowl contact it entailed ; the notion of living in the state of interdependence that bound Dora Lavender and Rose Kettle would have horrified them both . |
| 28 | Detaching himself from this passionate domesticity , he composed in his mind the kind of picture Rembrandt would have made of it . |
| 29 | ‘ Is it anyone I know ? ’ she asked , wishing that David would stop staring at her . |
| 30 | ‘ David would have stood by me . |