Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 2 | The airlines of today would find it difficult to compete with the luxury of meal service on Luft Hansa in 1928 . |
| 3 | I expect young people of today would rate the fair rides of the early 1920 's quite tame affairs . |
| 4 | Without the miniaturization that they bring , the powerful personal computer of today would have remained an impossibility . |
| 5 | I believe that if I 'm given the chance to fight the George Forman of old , the George Forman of today would be the better . |
| 6 | Oh I was gon na say , if you could stop them from undoing that door , they would n't never get it out of there would they ? |
| 7 | I do n't know whether it is just the advance of modern technology within the family , or whether it is because the type of material the fire is built with nowadays would n't let them taste quite so good . |
| 8 | I think that if they had just local lads to contend with there would be no problems . |
| 9 | In making it Curtis helped to unleash a force which before long would profoundly challenge the British claim to dominion in India . |
| 10 | Anyone entering from outside would only have seen Jim with his feet up in front of the fire , reading a thriller . |
| 11 | But he reaffirmed that no ‘ Finnish solution ’ or ‘ conspiracy of accommodation ’ made by the superpowers from outside would be acceptable to the mujahidin or considered binding on them . |
| 12 | Hardwick 's complaint at Hall 's conclave about inviting foreign architects to compete probably derived from the implication that architects from elsewhere would produce a better solution than British ones . |
| 13 | ‘ If only the people who criticise it from afar would actually come here and see it for themselves . |
| 14 | If only the people who criticise it from afar would actually come here and see it for themselves . ’ |
| 15 | In just 28 days from now would you like to be the proud owner of a new body ? |
| 16 | ‘ None the less , returning you to Milano before tomorrow would be . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps a few hours away from here would cure the feeling of claustrophobia that was beginning to creep over her . |
| 18 | Er there 's only er old people from here would know them see . |
| 19 | She was a pretty little thing , but I fear the libido of the young men she encountered in here would be at a low ebb . |
| 20 | Word spreads , and some of the clods who come in here would sell their own mothers for profit . |
| 21 | Well if it was that easy , I do n't suppose they 'd put it in in here would they ? |
| 22 | But I mean that yesterday afternoon you 'd have thought the bloody things were in here would n't |
| 23 | Be be perfect round here would n't it . |
| 24 | He told me he was about to go into a ‘ sealed camp ’ somewhere in the south of England , and that the letters he wrote from there would not be released until the invasion had safely begun . |
| 25 | In one area of Germany a quarry was being excavated for paving slabs and the fossils removed from there would otherwise have been destroyed . |
| 26 | What seeped out of the and mixed with some air from there would have been a little dung in it to it stood half the summer and got to be really high . |
| 27 | Inward investment from abroad would follow . |
| 28 | Keeping Quistgaard in position until then would help this strategy . |
| 29 | When they would come in there would be like a all lit up , beacon . |
| 30 | It appears from what I can see there , that the density in there would be too high , which it would not if it were sheltered . |