Example sentences of "[to-vb] anything that would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , I did not linger long enough — as I was obliged to explain to his lordship shortly afterwards — to hear anything that would give a clue as to M. Dupont 's attitude to Mr Lewis 's remarks . |
| 2 | I think they were so nervous to play anything that would imply for the space shot or against the space shot — whether the guys were going to come back or not . |
| 3 | Besides , its new paymaster — the Russian leadership — is keen to avoid anything that would embarrass Britain , just when it 's asking for Western aid . |
| 4 | First , the hon. Gentleman is terrified of saying anything that would upset his trade union paymasters ; secondly , he is afraid to do anything that would remind the electorate of the chains that bind his party to those paymasters — the bosses of the trade unions . |
| 5 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 6 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 7 | In the past the ruling council of Lloyd 's has refused to contemplate anything that would appear to mutualise names ' losses . |