Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] would [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is only — or mainly — accommodation problems which stop you repeating the year , Grandad & I would like you to know that you are welcome to live here & go to Oban High School . |
| 2 | He lay in bed , hoping the phone would go away or someone would answer it . |
| 3 | I said she had to change her lifestyle and eating habits or I would insist she came home . |
| 4 | For example the task could be to produce a news item which would amuse the audience , or which would surprise the audience , or which would make them very happy . |
| 5 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
| 6 | And erm that would carry on until such times as when the foreman or whoever would deem them fit to be a squad that could carry out er a heavier job if you want put it that way , where they would progress on to heavier plates etcetera , and do watertight work . |
| 7 | No oh no they or they would dump it in a place where nobody would see it you see . |
| 8 | They told me not to move my head or they would blow it off . ’ |
| 9 | Should there be any emergency he was to phone Dockhead police station , or they would phone him if they had reason to call . |
| 10 | The natives insisted he burn the book or they would attack him . |
| 11 | He dare n't go back or they would see him . |
| 12 | Or they would rob them or threaten to execute them . |
| 13 | Such reforms would either completely displace existing rules derived from the Fair Trading Act and monopolies legislation or they would refashion them so as to make them more meaningful in the era of multi-media ownership . |
| 14 | She had known their affair had to end or it would destroy them both , but now that it was about to do so , she was terrified of a future in which there would be no Luke , not even Luke causing her unhappiness . |
| 15 | Either she told him or he would force it from Una . |
| 16 | He fell sideways , but I knew he was n't knocked out , he still kept hold of me , I suddenly felt I had to kill him or he would kill me . |
| 17 | He told us not to turn around and to give him our money and jewellery or he would kill us . ’ |
| 18 | Well this is , this is why I thought perhaps erm I did n't want to ask Jim too much or he would know I was buying them for him you see . |
| 19 | But it bothered her , because Naylor You'll-do-as-I-say Massingham had as good as just told her that either she shut up and went along with everything he said , even to the extent of pretending to be engaged to him , or he would dismiss her ! |
| 20 | It would hurt to do it , to be without him , but she would have to if this went on too long , or he would destroy her emotionally , because she would have nothing left when he did finally tire of her . |
| 21 | Oh , before that she gave him strict injunctions to be sure to kill Horrible or he would destroy them all , which was duly done . |
| 22 | This task is made all the more necessary by the fact that opponents of absolute holism often find it strongly counter-intuitive , not to say absurd ; although they can grasp it at a very general level , they have difficulty in imagining either how it could be developed , or what would make it plausible . |
| 23 | who or what would upset him ? |
| 24 | who or what would please him ? |
| 25 | Angy had been stabbed in the throat and that 's exactly what he 'd done to her portrait … he was afraid that would all come out and everyone would think he 'd done it . ’ |
| 26 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 27 | But the publicity machine had come into operation and nothing would stop it . |
| 28 | And nothing would detain her . |
| 29 | And once you 'd made your decision , you dug your feet in and nothing would make you change your mind . |
| 30 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |