Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] would [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would not object to the guide my Lord but what we would object to do n't object to the guide my Lord but what we do object to is is what this er solicitor would have done in relation to it |
| 2 | So what we do is is what this er solicitor would have done in relation to it . |
| 3 | Alexander 's response would have left her breathless anyway . |
| 4 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |
| 5 | The judge said , the men 's defence would have involved a re-examination of the events of nineteen seventy four . |
| 6 | Underneath the water , Ivor Newley 's skin would have begun to bleach and wrinkle . |
| 7 | The car 's driver would have to manoeuvre so that the line on the screen pointed dead ahead of his car 's nose . |
| 8 | I would have thought someone of Mr Vivian 's experience would have thought of this . |
| 9 | On the communications front , Clinton 's programme would help fund a national information network linking homes , businesses , classrooms and libraries . |
| 10 | A six-footer behind some-one of the same size in the driver 's seat would have to sit in a splayed knees/bent neck posture . |
| 11 | A tour has been pencilled in for November but , if you ca n't wait , Sean 's management would like to remind you that there 's a video around called Sean Hughes — Live And Seriously Funny . |
| 12 | He had thought that taking her away from her mother 's influence would have encouraged her to stand on her own two feet . |
| 13 | The court accepted both the widow 's evidence and expert evidence that the defendant 's demeanour would have appeared reasonably sober despite an alcohol level of 131 milligrams . |
| 14 | A moment 's reflection would have helped him to see the folly , cruelty , and hypocrisy of trying to force someone to acknowledge this . |
| 15 | But at least the Cain 's mob would have made the lunch where the awards were announced . |
| 16 | Long used to the presence of humans , these were quite tame — even inquisitive — and the permanent twitching of the creature 's nose would have done nothing to hinder the emergence of the expression . |
| 17 | Allchin tried to get revenge by responding that if fairytales were true Jobs 's nose would have grown . |
| 18 | More specifically , I needed a woman 's voice , and Trippy 's place would have to do . |
| 19 | Most children in Matilda 's place would have burst into floods of tears . |
| 20 | Confucians ever since Mencius ( fl. 320 BC ) were very much concerned with the problem that if , as seems evident , there is evil in the nature which man receives from Heaven , to do evil in accordance with one 's nature would seem to have the authority of Heaven . |
| 21 | Any live electrical circuit such as contained in an emitting direction-finder or wire-tap on Quinn 's body would have caused the detector to give out a shrill ‘ whoop ’ . |
| 22 | You can well imagine when all the buses ran in between eleven and half past eleven that there was a mad scramble to get their cash in and someone , very often somebody 's cash would get knocked off the board , so there was a scramble on the floor . |
| 23 | Besides , ’ he added , descending from these dramatic heights , ‘ Matilda 's husband would have led the army . ’ |
| 24 | Debbie 's husband would have cared if he had gone short , oh yes . |
| 25 | Barnard 's shop would have had shutters , whilst the pavement-level trapdoor allowed for the delivery of ready-made coffins . |
| 26 | The danger that a landowner 's heir would have to pay relief on succeeding to his estate , and , if a minor , would have to become a ward of the Crown , could be avoided if the landowner himself , during his lifetime , enfeoffed trustees with the lands , reserving to the ‘ use ’ of himself and his heirs the annual income . |
| 27 | One wonders quite how Jennifer 's Diary would have described these scenes . |
| 28 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 29 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him . |
| 30 | Bede 's statement that Chad was sent by Oswiu to the archbishop of Canterbury to be consecrated , only to find that Deusdedit had died ( HE 111 , 28 ) , is unlikely to be correct because Wilfrid had known that Deusdedit was dead when he was earlier seeking consecration as Ealhfrith 's bishop and the probability must be that Oswiu 's court would have known this too . |