Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 2 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 3 | Er I mean I , I mean have we really thought this through because er if we 're an anticipating having hundred , hundred and fifty people here which I suppose is of course about what we would hope for , the response that NUPE er as you know they would need to actually achieve the yes vote , I mean we need this sort of room full er would n't it not be more sensible to split up between co or not , would it not be normal for the tutor to expect the group to split up to address specific areas like , I do n't know , Labour Party membership , erm finance , I do n't know , whatever |
| 4 | Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question . |
| 5 | The legal basis was being created for workers to set up their own professional , cultural and leisure-time organizations through which they would become integrated with the rest of society . |
| 6 | So Taylor took Lineker into the European Championship as his first choice marksman , but with big doubts about what he would contribute . |
| 7 | You are bound to have many questions you would like to ask , as well as certain anxieties about which you would like your mind set at rest . |
| 8 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 9 | I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city . |
| 10 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 11 | When pressed and asked , ’ What if British Steel refuses to change its policy after talking ? ’ the Opposition gave no indication of what they would do . |
| 12 | This was our ‘ Marche Képi Blanc ’ , on completion of which we would have passed the tests to become legionnaires . |
| 13 | Still , in this poem she is examining a condition into which she would enter by seeking patrons for her verse . |
| 14 | The colour left her skin , her pale face showing a deep fear at the way he was crushing her to his body , the whipcord strength of his arms and the determination of his roaming fingers giving her an idea of the violence with which he would take her . |
| 15 | However , BA is now expected to announce a revised partnership deal in which it would gain a 20% stake worth about $340m . |
| 16 | And so we were involved a great deal in what we would call ‘ protesting ’ but as far as political activity , that was never my thing . |
| 17 | He foresaw a partnership in which he would pursue his sporting and eccentric intellectual interests and keep in close touch with female confidantes . |
| 18 | Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die . |
| 19 | IMHO there are only 3 possible contenders from what I would call the ‘ managerial school ’ : |
| 20 | Cordelia , like Coriolanus , is being forced into a ceremony in which she would have to be false to her own nature . |
| 21 | He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes . |
| 22 | Cruttenden 's data also tend to confirm that congruity has a greater effect when it is paired with gender cue , which is the condition in which it would seem , a priori , to be less useful . |
| 23 | They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart . |
| 24 | Describe an experiment by which you would determine the relative molecular mass of a gas or vapour . |
| 25 | With many populations we are already aware that the units fall into sub-groups of which we would wish to take account in any sampling . |
| 26 | This obviously reduces the income below what it would have been had he been able to hold the assets directly . |
| 27 | Diametric offers a unique design service ; send a sketch or short description of what you would like for a particular room or purpose , and it will work out and cost the design . |
| 28 | What one wants is a major library award of whatever it would cost to put a qualified librarian in . |
| 29 | The reasons for this deficit are largely associated with the , the trend of pay and price increases outstripping our income , and outstripping our projections of what we would have to spend . |
| 30 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |