Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were walking he would sometimes take her elbow — less to support her , she thought , than to steer her . |
| 2 | If they were included he would surely return to No.1 for the first time in six years . |
| 3 | But if it were granted it would significantly strengthen the conservationists ' hand politically . |
| 4 | What are called ‘ proofs for the existence of God ’ are not attempts to show that there must be a divine kind of thing ( we have no concept of a divine kind of thing ) , they just seek to show that if and when all other questions were answered we would still be left with this mystery : and this is what we shall call ‘ God ’ . |
| 5 | Someone who is so much a part of you that if you were separated you 'd no longer feel whole . ’ |
| 6 | If all its facilities were used it would also cause too many problems of transfer to other systems . |
| 7 | Patients were told they would just have to live with the birthmarks . |
| 8 | In the most draconian punishment ever handed out to Scottish internationalists , Billy Bremner , Joe Harper , Pat McCluskey , Willie Young and Arthur Graham were told they would never play for their country again . |
| 9 | ‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here . |
| 10 | ‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here . |
| 11 | The women were told it would soon be mended , but by the time it came for bed it still was n't repaired , although probably all it needed was a new fuse . |
| 12 | They were told she would never be able to walk . |
| 13 | The crofter could apply for the ‘ de-crofting ’ of his land , but if this were approved he would no longer be eligible for the many special rights and privileges enjoyed by crofting tenants . |
| 14 | So the actors were speaking what would otherwise have remained unspoken . |
| 15 | The sums involved made it difficult to prevent the inflows from boosting the money supply by selling bonds , and in any case , if this were attempted it would only prevent interest rates from falling and keep the currency attractive to those anxious to get out of dollars . |
| 16 | ‘ Old pros like St.John were saying I would never come back from four knee operations , ’ said Gazza . |
| 17 | If we had paid more attention to what the Japanese were doing we would perhaps not be so subject to their products as we are . |
| 18 | They are built of the teak , polished and varnished , and are well adapted to the Underground , whereas if ordinary coloured coaches were run they would soon show the dirt — as do the G.W. ‘ And now , ’ said Mr Coker , ‘ you shall see some of our crack rolling-stock — the finest trains in the Kingdom ’ . |
| 19 | All the information they possessed had probably been got out of them , but if they were released they would simply disappear . |
| 20 | Whichever way her life was goin' she would never have it soft again , not as she saw it at this present moment . |
| 21 | If the old man was dying they 'd maybe let the old lady come and see him or vice versa . |
| 22 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 23 | He was not dead , but not far off dead — and 't was said he 'd never be the same again . |
| 24 | III was abolished they would still be able to grow at 10 per cent per cycle . |
| 25 | After my operation I was told I would eventually be 100 per cent fit . |
| 26 | And I was told I would never get a job as a fireman . |
| 27 | Koloto said : ‘ I never lost hope , even when I was told I would never play again . |
| 28 | She was told she 'd soon be attended to , and instructed to take a chair . |
| 29 | In exchange it was promised it would always be paid the interest gross . |
| 30 | When he was conducting I would often sit in the orchestra in the middle of the woodwinds . |