Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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1 | But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated . |
2 | Twice or three times a year he would be carried out to the automobile or the dog-cart , and be driven round the home farm . |
3 | ‘ Not less than ten thousand pounds a year I 'd guess … canny old fool in command … would not surprise me if … but convinced can succeed … patience and patience is all … please keep up your letters to Colonel the Honourable A. A. Hope , M.P . ’ |
4 | It was n't its actual speed there will be sometimes it will be going very slowly , sometimes it will be going much more quickly but its average speed was sixty miles an hour because at sixty miles an hour it would cover a hundred and twenty miles , which was the distance , in two hours . |
5 | The average dairy cow produces 45–50 litres of milk every day , ten times the amount she would produce for a suckling calf . |
6 | At two pounds and ten shillings an acre it would take only ten working days to pay for the plough , but he had promised Christian half his earnings . |
7 | He would cover Scotland in a sea of flames , and teach those traitors a lesson they would never forget . |
8 | They 're bound to be at least sixty , to eighty pounds a pan I would think , if not |
9 | If he 'd driven at 40 miles an hour he would have driven straight past . |
10 | Again , three or four times a week he would push himself to the limit , galloping across the countryside with the hounds , risking life and limb in another of the most physically exacting sports known to man . |
11 | If he was working for only two days every week it would be ten weeks before he began to make a profit . |