Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] would [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 2 | In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction … |
| 3 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 4 | ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was under no illusions I would walk into the team here , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ They had to be believable as the kind of kids you 'd see on the streets , but not on TV . |
| 7 | When she was castaway on Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs — a year before taking over the show — Sue told the then presenter Michael Parkinson that the luxury she would want on the island would be an endless supply of clean sheets and an iron . |
| 8 | She knew that much from the English-language books she 'd read during the evenings , sitting in the Sabatini library . |
| 9 | From an infant 's fluttering speed it would go through the thickening slowness of adult life to the full stop of a corpse . |
| 10 | Forgetting prejudice it would seem from the table that the objective equivalence of these two unrecommended activities is straightforward . |
| 11 | No one , in those early days of nuclear weaponry , seemed to have anticipated the adverse effect it would have on the men sheltering below . |
| 12 | The model developed in chapter 4 suggested that only the unpredictable component of aggregate demand would cause output to deviate from its natural level , and the more unpredictable it was the less effect it would have on the deviation of real output from its natural rate . |
| 13 | Mr Brighton , erm before I turn to another speaker , your comment about the location of a new settlement , and the likely effect it would have on the West Yorkshire conurbation , er I presume from what you 've said is that effectively the new settlement , if you have one , its location should be such as to serve the needs of York and Greater York , and therefore the further it is away from the West Yorkshire conurbation , or the West side of North Yorkshire , the more likely it is to fulfil that function . |
| 14 | After two months , they finally voted the plans out by five votes to four — their reasons included an objection to the height of the pyramid and the effect it would have on the view of the city , the loss of trees in the meadow and the huge shadow it would cast over most of Oxford . |
| 15 | In general the local reaction welcomed the prospect of development : ‘ The excitement created by the discovery of the mine and the expected bonanza it would bring to the area also dampened opposition . |
| 16 | Mr Shahiduddin Postman was a familiar figure at the house : every morning after delivering our mail he would squat outside the front gate , smoking a bidi with the mali , a man to whom he bore a certain resemblance . |
| 17 | The major advantage of the new proposal , from Ivan 's point of view , was the additional revenue it would bring to the central treasury , for his offer was conditional on a steep rise in the rate of taxation . |
| 18 | Like Andre Gide , who when young expected people to admire him for the books he would write in the future , Charlie came to love being appreciated in several high streets for his potential . |
| 19 | ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those . |
| 20 | The only tweak I would recommend to the putative purchaser would be to reduce the Smartdrive cache to one megabyte and institute a 2MB RAMdrive with a TEMP directory on it . |
| 21 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 22 | As he climbed through her bedroom window she would flee down the stairs , slamming the door on his sanguinary hand . |
| 23 | On board , liveried stewards serve delicious meals and fine wines with the style and elegance you would expect from the ‘ King of Trains ’ . |
| 24 | In return she 'd look after the ponies , school them and play polo . ’ |
| 25 | It is also a question we would ask about the tomb of a knight , whose collar suggests he might have been a Lancastrian . |
| 26 | Once they had their lunch they would return to the seats and eat , when finished they were permitted to go outside to play . |
| 27 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 28 | He had promised Monie he would wait until the end of the season before discussing his future . |
| 29 | After lunch he 'd go into the city and come back with a whole armful of roses , the price of many shirts . ’ |
| 30 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |