Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it happened all the time , I would give up the game — I 'd quit . |
| 2 | I thought that I would scratch out the pictures , but now that the woman has seen them they are not mine any more . |
| 3 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |
| 4 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 5 | I thought I would bring out the affinity between Elizabethan English and classical Arabic . ’ |
| 6 | erm , so I would come up the town with you if I could think what for |
| 7 | I would trace out the courses of rivers in my school atlas and imagine following them to their sources or to some foreign sea . |
| 8 | They thought if I became England manager I would take over the FA — and I would have done ! ’ |
| 9 | I would pick up the phone and phone my solicitor and ask to come and see him and get his advice . |
| 10 | The doubles which are now being offered widely are indispensable and I would pick out the deep red ‘ Captain Blood ’ , the white edged purple ‘ Marie Crousse ’ and ‘ Our Pat ’ in bluish-violet as the best growers . |
| 11 | ‘ I would line the men up outside , then I would pick out the youngest and strongest for sweeping and cleaning . |
| 12 | I hope you think that this is important more important to you as it were than it is , is to us because you the clubs and the sailing schools really really must take these sorts of messages on board , not perhaps all of that list there but I would pick out erm that the message that we want to get across to young people , I would pick out the words fun , the words challenging , the words safe , alright . |
| 13 | Carl Sagan , the distinguished astrophysicist , suggested in 1961 that Venus could be made habitable to earthlings if it were seeded with blue-green algae , which would split up the carbon and oxygen molecules to glean the carbon necessary for the glucose and carbohydrate diets they would need . |
| 14 | With Lytton Strachey 's Elizabeth and Essex as their source , they invented scenes which would open out the twin deltas of their story ; Elizabeth the monarch and Elizabeth the woman . |
| 15 | This , more developed , scheme outlined the much criticized recommendation of setting up an inner Cabinet of five which would carry out the needed programme of economic reform . |
| 16 | In December the formation of a Command of the People 's Army was announced which would carry out the professional management of the defence forces ; Lt-Gen Kalman Loerincz became commander , with the government rank of State Secretary . |
| 17 | The three principal tasks of the proposed congress would be ( i ) to set out the broad principles within which the detailed constitutional work could be carried out ; ( ii ) to determine the make-up of the body which would draw up the constitution ; and ( iii ) to establish an interim government to oversee the transition process until a new government was in place . |
| 18 | He claimed that the Government 's vision of enabling authorities — those which would contract out the operation of services — was greatly exaggerated . |
| 19 | During the summer of 1716 , a sensitive time since i August marked the anniversary of King George 's alleged usurpation of the throne , considerable unrest occurred in London where taverns associated with the Whigs were attacked by mobs which would break up the premises but leave enough of the stock undamaged to drink the health of ‘ James III ’ . |
| 20 | To add a new word into the dawg , the current structure would need to be searched both forwards and backwards to establish whether or not the required paths exist , which would slow down the building algorithm ( see section 3.3.3 ) . |
| 21 | Mr Vassiliou , 61 , seeking a second five-year term , helped to draw up the formula as a basis for negotiation which would bring down the dividing ‘ green line ’ . |
| 22 | The supreme body was the Council of Heads of State , which would take on the responsibility of legal succession from the dissolution of the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 24 | , director of the SFO , said that the introduction of plea bargaining would be ‘ the single most important reform ’ which would speed up the disposal of cases . |
| 25 | Lords and peasants were given two years to prepare charters which would map out the peasants ' " portions of arable land " and define the extent of their " obligations " . |
| 26 | He therefore made a radical break with the French socialist tradition of speculation on the details of a socialist society , in favour of developing the real working class movement against capitalism which would work out the ‘ details of socialism ’ in the process of struggle . |
| 27 | Or we could apply some kind of transformation which would stretch out the tails of the distribution , which would let us stick with arithmetic procedures and avoid multiplicative models . |
| 28 | Should the prevailing interest rate be greater than Oi l , there would be an excess supply of money ( or excess demand for bonds ) which would push up the price of bonds and push down interest rates , back towards the equilibrium . |
| 29 | Pensioners ' groups also demanded the cancellation of the energy price rises , arguing that they would lead to increases in food prices which would cancel out the benefits of recent improvements to pensions . |
| 30 | She thought of all the wretched women in the East End , and aye , in the West End too , not excluding her own maltreated self , and thought that at whatever cost she would carry out the task she had set herself — to find out how the under-privileged lived , and to strike a blow for suffering womanhood while she did so . |