Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he had no children , how could anyone say what kind of a father he would make until given a chance to prove it himself ? |
| 2 | Gusev knew from experience that sooner or later something would emerge and give the vital clue . |
| 3 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 4 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 5 | It would be exciting to belong to a man like Roman ; he would be no gentle lover … he would demand and give everything . |
| 6 | I would suggest that given the decision we prepared to make now even if you have to send a deposit get the local party to stump up the deposit and collect the money as soon as convenient from the people who are committed to going . |
| 7 | Crossing the bridge on his way home , he thought he would stop and give Mr Hellyer a piece of his Mars Bar , but as he got nearer , he saw Mr Hellyer was gone . |
| 8 | The child was observed through a one-way screen to see whether he or she would resist or give in to temptation ( i.e. pick up the more attractive , but forbidden , toy ) . |
| 9 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 10 | But I would try and give up sugar altogether , but I do n't know . |
| 11 | He would go and give her his answer right away . |
| 12 | Jane would come and give the cottages — we built the second one in 1977 — a final clean and polish , and we would replace any damaged or soiled furniture or utensils . |
| 13 | The dancers would dance , the mannequin would shiver and give birth to the green girl . |