Example sentences of "anything [conj] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using small bits of foam or anything that would stop it getting in there . |
| 2 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
| 3 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |
| 4 | With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) . |
| 5 | Anything that would give him his bearings again . |
| 6 | Even so , I thought it was worth persisting , trying to get her to remember noises , smells , anything that would give us a clue to where they were taken . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance . |
| 9 | ‘ None of us could find anything that would shift it however much elbow grease we used . |
| 10 | There were nights when , hearing him start at three or four in the morning , she would have welcomed anything that would let him stop and rest-paregoric , a sugar-tit , any of those wicked things . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 13 | Then I was slamming into Elk 's Club Surf , still sliding left , still fighting for balance , for everything and anything that would keep me upright . |
| 14 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 15 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't think of anything that would please her more than to be investigated by you . ’ |
| 17 | I would like to share with you a burden for prayer as I feel it is only right that all Christians should know about anything that would deny us total freedom . |
| 18 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |