Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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1 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
2 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
3 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
4 | If she dreamed of him again it would be this man 's face she would see . |
5 | i implant and yeah that kind of thing and er whereas , you know , in this guy 's view it would erm involve the erosion of , of the whole culture of sign language |
6 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
7 | And this brother who married his late brother 's wife he would also take over all that belonged to her , because , you know , all that , it was his dead brother 's , he would take it all over , it would become his the land , the business the property , the mortgage , the debts they would all become the brother who now marries the th th the widow . |
8 | In eight week 's time he would be Virginia Grafton 's husband . |
9 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
10 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
11 | During a hot summer 's day you would n't be able to move for frazzled tourists but when the weather is miserable it 's a different story . |
12 | In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives . |
13 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
14 | Measured by the middle group 's criteria they would 've had three then would they ? |
15 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
16 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
17 | Normally on New Year 's Day he would be at home with Mandy . |
18 | After the controversy over last week 's leak I would not have announced our move and I did not reveal it at our annual meeting . |
19 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |
20 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |