Example sentences of "who would do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 2 | I thought you might have become the sort of man who would do something like that . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Who would do something like this ? ’ |
| 4 | They were offering free accommodation and food to someone who would do what they described as a little gentle housework . |
| 5 | Someone who would do what he was told … |
| 6 | She may find it difficult not to regard you still as the child who would do her bidding without question ; and you have to learn to see her , not just as your mother , but as a ‘ person ’ too , with good and bad traits in her character just like everyone else — not expecting silver-haired sainthood from her simply because she gave birth to you . |
| 7 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 8 | Yanto , who would do anything for anybody who asked him nicely , also had a very short fuse when it came to insults , especially in front of witnesses . |
| 9 | My second observation demonstrates the absurdity of the idea that our relationship was , to borrow the elegant formula adopted by one news comic , ‘ the perverted passion of two sex junkies who would do anything — even kill — for their fix ’ . |
| 10 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 11 | He was being told in no uncertain terms that he could come out of all this as the loving , caring father who would do anything to keep his daughter 's reputation ; who welcomed her choice of husband with open arms ; who would not bow down in the face of adversity , but would rise up and conquer it . |
| 12 | I had always considered him , and still did in the absence of any other evidence , to be a sincere person , one who would do anything to fulfil his promises . |
| 13 | The simpering sort who would do anything for him and knew how to knock up gourmet dinners in fifteen minutes flat . |
| 14 | Politics aside , Crawford 's black-and-blue comedy had made him a star with New York theatre-goers , and the American film industry was about to capitalize on this young star who would do anything . |
| 15 | There are people in this country who would do anything to end it . |
| 16 | If so , what might the adaptation cost be and who would do it ? |
| 17 | Ken 's last wish was that his coffin should be carried by six Athletico players but I could not find a single one of the bastards who would do it for less than fifty quid . |
| 18 | I mean a fixed term contract for a year for a new in , for an investigator , first of all we 've got to find someone who would do it , secondly if that person was n't frankly al already an investigator the investment in that person . |