Example sentences of "[pron] would [art] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would no doubt see him walking on the cliffs with an ancient spaniel at his heels . |
| 2 | Breathless , she said , ‘ I meant I would no doubt hear about you through the grapevine , Mr Flint , not that I would personally — ’ |
| 3 | Indeed , if I had thought that , I would no doubt have been disabused of it by last night 's debate , to which my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) so ably replied . |
| 4 | Little more than two months after Lord Hanson 's departure , Sir Denys announced , with his demerger plan , just such an unbundling as the archpredator himself would no doubt have undertaken . |
| 5 | Little more than two months after Lord Hanson 's departure , Sir Denys announced just such an unbundling as the archpredator himself would no doubt have undertaken |
| 6 | He was walking her home , and she planned to throw her arms round him the moment they reached the gate of her house and to kiss him which would no doubt make him stand stock still , completely flabbergasted . |
| 7 | This is not a full list , but only those more important features that I remember — items which would no doubt delight Labour and the unions , but spell the death of profitability for many British firms . |
| 8 | The conversation turned to the Biafran War and a controversy arose about the Biafrans ' prospects of success , which would no doubt have been more favourably presented by Aitken than was believed by the General . |
| 9 | All the shares will be offered by the company as part of a comprehensive refinancing plan to reduce debt , strengthen the capital structure , increase financial flexibility and improve profitability by reducing interest costs and increase the market liquidity of the common stock — most of the shares are currently still held by former parent Perkin-Elmer Corp , which would no doubt like to see a better price before it sells . |
| 10 | If that was what he wanted , she would no doubt tell him again , if he wished to forbid the outing , then perhaps it was time for Madame herself to break her long silence . |
| 11 | If I 'd suggested to Manuela that we murder someone , she would no doubt have gone along with it as she went along with everything else I suggested . |
| 12 | In the West , she would no doubt have gone on to pass ‘ A ’ levels or the baccalaureate with enough marks to ensure a place at university and then perhaps a career in law or medicine , banking or politics . |
| 13 | When the time came , she would no doubt lose him for ever . |
| 14 | But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice . |
| 15 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 16 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 17 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 18 | He knew he would be assured of company there with no talk of weddings , and they would no doubt offer him a drink . |
| 19 | Had their judgments on waste been issued by GATT , they would no doubt have provoked uproar from environmental activists . |
| 20 | They would no doubt have been astonished , of not appalled , if they had been able to glimpse the bitterness and pain of the long voyage that lay ahead , In some ways the exile on which the Shah was now embarked echoed not only his first exile in 1953 , but even that of his father , Reza Shah , before him . |
| 21 | We know of course that this mother has the normal strong biological drive to care for her offspring , and if she did handle him would no doubt develop an emotional involvement . |
| 22 | Fukuyama is unlikely to attach much weight to Liberation theology , which he would no doubt classify as a doomed subspecies of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 23 | His erstwhile subordinate had been raised to a position of considerable power now , and he would no doubt recall how little mercy he had been shown by his former Controller . |
| 24 | With hindsight , it was probably the best thing that could have happened to him , otherwise he would no doubt have ended up as a Bomber Pilot , and no-one knows better than I what a dead-end occupation that was . |
| 25 | Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 : |
| 26 | He was a van Gogh , and his cousin an established painter , otherwise he would no doubt have been ignored altogether . |
| 27 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 28 | He was so naturally modest ( some have described his so-called humility — ‘ the most difficult of Christian virtues ’ , as he put it — as an irritating pose ) that had he been aware of this silent hero-worship , he would no doubt have felt uneasy . |
| 29 | If she had n't resisted he would no doubt have made sure Peter knew at once that she was n't to be trusted ! |
| 30 | In many ways , the good arciprete is nostalgic for the days of Stalin and he regards Russian glasnost rather as he would the Vatican bank investing heavily in Durex . |