Example sentences of "[noun] would [adv] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secular decline in the Sinn Féin vote — from a peak of 13.4 per cent in 1983 to 10 per cent on April 9 — meant that Mr Adams ' seat would surely fall at some point . |
| 2 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 3 | ( Animal instinct would presumably involve at most an appreciation by the woman that the defendant intended to insert his penis into her vagina . ) |
| 4 | From the start there was no such thing as clocking in ; Bernard would usually arrive at 7.30 am , sometimes earlier , and everyone else would be there by 8 am . |
| 5 | It may sound nasty but a man would never look at some of those women she said , a lot of women deserved to be raped . |
| 6 | It may sound nasty but a man would never look at some of those women she said . |
| 7 | And the searchlights the the battery that we were The camp that we were near , they opened fire and the battery would open fire at that , and the searchlight anyway came in through the window . |