Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [conj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the end if she could and would destroy the man 's marriage . |
| 2 | There was a confused position and Baldwin was entitled to continue until the oppositions could show that they could and would defeat him in the House of Commons . |
| 3 | The rise in long-term unemployment and the increase in child poverty since the mid 1970s is likely to mean that the health of the lower social classes is improving more slowly than it should and would have done , rather than that it is getting worse . |
| 4 | He must and would take the field himself against Glendower , and make an end of him . |
| 5 | Mr Gorbachev may not have the authority to send Soviet troops to non-Russian parts of his own country at this point , so it 's very unlikely that he could or would try to send ground forces to the Persian Gulf . |
| 6 | He would not miss so plain a possibility , but he could and would refrain from entertaining and proceeding on it until more is known . |
| 7 | He said he would and would advise them strongly to support me . |
| 8 | He said he would & would advise them strongly to support me . |