Example sentences of "that would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 There 's not many men who are n't even relations that 'd give someone a record player for a wedding present . ’
2 Much good that 'd do her , if what his department suspected was true .
3 I reckoned it 'd have t'run' from the house to a point outside the perimeter fence , cuz that 'd take 'em clear of anyone who wuz in control of the grounds .
4 ‘ Well , I thought if I do n't get these exams , I wo n't get a job , because that 's what people rubbed into us , and then I thought , well , Christ , if I went down town now and had a look , I bet there 's a dozen jobs that 'd suit me .
5 I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay .
6 If that could be added that would achieve my objectives and we can all get on to the debate about V A T on .
7 His mind was elsewhere , exploring , recording , storing up scenes and experiences that would serve his work , even as the travel served his restless needs .
8 He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ .
9 Lear , however , as he constantly complained , had not had training as an engraver ; and , in an effort to find a medium that would serve his publication without drawing excessively on his limited resources , he turned to the novel technique of lithography .
10 ‘ If only they had n't scrapped the old grammar school , ’ muttered Dr Frome , and Pumfrey saw that he was beginning to erect in his mind a structure of excuses and evasions that would justify him to himself .
11 A sluice gate was installed up the hill where the water that would create our power was diverted from the Meloch into the millpond , and another at the other end of the pond above the terraces at the back of Melin Cottage .
12 ‘ I kept looking for something that would tell me ( the PTL managers ) kept it from Bakker himself … but it never came . ’
13 She did n't recognise any landmarks , so she went on again , keeping a sharp lookout for her ‘ pony tree ’ and for any other tree or open space that would tell her she was on the right path .
14 Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ?
15 Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ?
16 They did this over two weeks , but there was no means of knowing the energies of the neutrons , the essential information that would tell them whether they were from the fusion of deuterium and be the final proof .
17 He kept listening for sounds that would tell him Blackbeard and his henchman were in the vicinity .
18 And farther down the loch had waited the frigate that would escort it out to sea and stay with it , someone had told her , until it reached the safety of deep water .
19 While Ollokot was boisterous and full of daring , the young Joseph demonstrated the gentle , dignified nature that would distinguish his later life .
20 One more step and she would be confronted by its face — a face that would encompass her own death .
21 These phrases denied me my right to participate in the very same way that the socialist movement refused to recognize my rights to have access to information that would dispel my ignorance on such subjects .
22 Yes , to give him the chance to find the right one , the one that would stir him in such a way that he felt he could n't do without her .
23 This could not exactly be a straight substitution : to attempt that would involve something like a category mistake .
24 Kim 's mother took this idea further by making some of the activities given to Kim those that would involve her helpfully with the baby .
25 Anderson was unique , brought in to fill two vital functions : the need for a medic , and the need to give G9 something special , some angle that would disguise its true nature , an extraordinary elite fighting group trained for any emergency .
26 Sometimes , before he drank the fourth or fifth glass of Côtes-du-Rhone that would incapacitate him , he thought with guilt of the Flanders fields , with impotence of the forests where wolves ranged , — with the sense of temptation , secret delight , and energy welling up from unknown sources of Gauguin 's cold bluster , of Vincent 's two voices .
27 He dared not move , for fear of starting a slide of loose stones that would carry him down and irresistibly over the edge of the quarry .
28 ‘ There are n't horses that would carry them , ’ muttered Caspar .
29 Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital .
30 Pascoe was walking through their house , ten years before , going from room to room , first puzzled , then anxious , then searching for something that would explain her absence .
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