Example sentences of "they would probably " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the trial , few of them would probably have read The Face . |
| 2 | A drainage ditch around them would probably do more good than anything else . |
| 3 | Indeed , all three of them would probably have willingly paid to have been part of the occasion which is now firmly entrenched in French sporting history . |
| 4 | In this large body , very few would have known the pre-Conquest church ; and most of them would probably have been children of the new gentry in the neighbourhood of Canterbury , perhaps with parents of mixed Anglo-Norman origin . |
| 5 | the the deputies had prepared er they 'd er there 'd be a stall say erm n n nineties or like that might be , and the order for them would probably be , Twelve four foot props , and twelve bars , you see ? |
| 6 | Sensibly avoided , a sex session with them would probably lead to repentant tears and an under-age sex charge . |
| 7 | He was filmed prancing round the forecourt like a wayward member of a modern dance troupe ; the witnesses in the passing cars would n't just have noticed his approach , they would probably have pulled up to watch , so bizarre and entertaining were his surreptitious motions . |
| 8 | They would probably be down in their cellar . |
| 9 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 10 | Even if urban foxes were dumped in rural areas , they would probably do little harm . |
| 11 | As winter approaches , food supplies dwindle to almost nil ; if the hedgehogs did not hibernate , they would probably starve . |
| 12 | If professional textile designers had translated the patterns , they would probably have perfected the colour register — the correct alignment of the plates in four-colour printing . |
| 13 | They would just like to keep on playing , they claim , and if they have children they would probably use educational methods similar to their father 's . |
| 14 | If England could organise the draw to their liking they would probably play Austria , Colombia and Costa Rica in the first round . |
| 15 | It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear . |
| 16 | Even if the Germans were to join , it is argued , they would probably hedge their participation with so many conditions that the force would be useless . |
| 17 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 18 | But the novelists had never heard of Marx and Engels — and if they had heard of them and their ideas , they would probably have recoiled in horror , perceiving the threat to their own privileged position . |
| 19 | After most peoples experiences of travelling on camels they would probably find a penny farthing easier , but Robyn Davidson trekked 1,700 miles across the Australian desert with two camels and a dog for company . |
| 20 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 21 | Gloria reported back that , if she went to the police , they would probably supply someone . |
| 22 | If they were to try to give an answer to the question at the head of this section , they would probably try to give a general account of factors which encourage or discourage chickens from crossing roads . |
| 23 | He pointed out that although the Select Committee had regretted that the opinion of the assessors was not taken into consideration in the outcome of the competition , they would probably not have chosen Scott . |
| 24 | Even if later generations of beam weapons could provide better shields against nuclear attack , they would probably only buy time in the arms race . |
| 25 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 26 | They would probably be accepted simply by placing them , mewing plaintively , near her nest-box . |
| 27 | They would probably be challenged well before then . |
| 28 | There would probably be some results , but they would probably be somewhat superficial , and the knowledge gleaned would be of a general rather than a specific nature . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , one would like to read the results of Beth 's cerebrations ; they would probably be unlike those of her creator , for Elizabeth 's death roll is not long . |
| 30 | After school , Mrs Trickett suggested , they would probably be engaged in other activities ; at bedtime perhaps only one parent would be at home , and the children would be tired . |