Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] would [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 2 | Chairman I would like a word . |
| 3 | For native English speakers I would give a quite different kind of lecture , and I did not want to be judged by the standards of my lectures to the Japanese , which were nearly always basic and very simple in expression . |
| 4 | But safely shut in her new home , fed on taro scraps and berries , she would grow fat ; and one day in the future she would make a tough but tasty roast for a clan gathering . |
| 5 | For this rule you would use a point marked C as the reference to measure two club lengths if the ball is dropped on the opposite side of the hazard . |
| 6 | So for example , to find all the recordings of music by Bach you would specify a condition meaning composer equals Bach . |
| 7 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 8 | I 'm not breaking my stated rule here and recommending this hotel , just saying that it is there and that if you could get the back bedrooms you would have a most remarkable scene to look out on . |
| 9 | We learned Fascist songs , and at the end of each term we would hold a gymnastic display for the Fascist authorities and our parents . |
| 10 | In the longer term we would support a review of the B1 Business Use Class to extend the powers of local authorities over this form of development . |
| 11 | I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement . |
| 12 | I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement . |
| 13 | Every spring he would hire a small bus to take the older children to the foothills of the Apennines . |
| 14 | It was nice to talk over old times and Swire Sugden assured me that in future he would get a consensus before sending in the bulldozers . |
| 15 | In the future it would earn a lot of laughs , but Rain did not think it deserved any yet . |
| 16 | If he were a poet he would write a poem to that glimpse of bare ankle . |
| 17 | In the resultant Postlethwait audio-tutorial laboratory , open from around 7.00 a.m. to 11.30 pm. , the student could come at a time of his own choosing ; at the entrance he would receive a descriptive hand-out explaining what books , notes , equipment would be necessary to bring along ; once inside he would be given a botanical specimen and would enter a pleasant area equipped with a multiplicity of booths or carrels . |
| 18 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 19 | Under Swiss law she would get a long prison sentence . |
| 20 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 21 | Were you to bring a tenth of the consideration that you show them and your parishioners to needs that lie closer to home you would find a more contented wife at your side . |
| 22 | Perhaps if she asked him a simple , straightforward question she would receive a simple , straightforward answer in return . |
| 23 | Instead of arguing that there is one correct answer to questions about the use of law we would advocate a close scrutiny of its context . |
| 24 | Under these circumstances we would take a sympathetic attitude and only deduct one excess for the family . |
| 25 | It means if we had that spending assessment and our costs , instead of the listeners getting a bill for four hundred pounds in their letterbox in May they would get a cheque for over five hundred pounds . |
| 26 | In less than a second it would tear a gap in the highway the width of the riverbed . |
| 27 | If he agreed to marriage it would mean a whole new lifestyle . |
| 28 | He concluded with a promise that before the next session he would obtain a less expensive plan probably providing accommodation for the Foreign Colonial and India Offices , and although reception rooms should be included , the residence could be omitted . |
| 29 | Mr Yeltsin said that by December he would present a new law on forming a government that would have cancelled his special powers . |
| 30 | Only last year organizations such as CAMRA helped to get S & N's bid for J. Cameron ( Hartlepool ) referred to the Commission on the grounds that if S & N acquired Cameron 's pubs it would have a monopoly of outlets in the North East . |