Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] would [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he would place them on one of the old time boards which was er board about nine inches by nine inches and then hand that through the pigeon hole to the cashier and in front of him that cashier would laboriously count that money and agree the total there and then . |
| 2 | Dorcas began to really wish the old woman would n't do that . |
| 3 | Acquiescence in , or acceptance of , this wording would therefore imply that convocation , too , was another royal court at the mercy of royal directions as to its procedure and business . |
| 4 | The little girl would always remember that moment , and the picture of her mother , so beautiful and so elegant in her top hat and long dark riding habit , mounted side-saddle on her famous grey hunter . |
| 5 | In a recent insolvency case before the Court of First Instance , it was claimed by an applicant that disclosing an agreement to a national authority would irreparably damage that party 's relations with its own national government . |
| 6 | Most of the breakers kept a portion for themselves , knowing that the unlucky punter would eventually pay that portion once again . |
| 7 | Piecemeal highlights are all very well , but viewers tend to be creatures of habit and , at present , a short burst of goals every Saturday night is just a tease ; an uninitiated visitor would never guess that football was the national game . |
| 8 | ( Advocates of managed trade would doubtless dispute that . ) |
| 9 | Only a bone-headed Government would not accept that , by taking away young people 's ability to claim benefit and housing benefit and the opportunity to receive a decent reward for a training scheme , and by halving the value of the training allowance in the past 12 years , they are picking on young people who , at the same time , are being pushed ever further towards the consumer society . |
| 10 | For a little while she 'd almost managed to forget about Marianne. , She should have known the other woman would n't allow that to remain the case for very long . |