Example sentences of "[adv] they would [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably they would have lost all the same , but another bowler might have made it much closer . |
| 2 | Fifty years ago they would have said this trip was impossible ; crouching on beaches , men in their teens and early twenties had believed they would never see another dawn . |
| 3 | Why ca nt they realise for a second that if he had been playing , maybe they would have won all 6 matches and pissed on all of the sides ? |
| 4 | I think , I think a shop , if you look at from the shop 's point of view erm I think it is quite understandable and natural that they would , they would either like a receipt or at least they would like to see some evi |
| 5 | And I in I invite I suppose the County Council really to respond to this issue of how they would intend erm indeed the districts , how they would intend to use these criteria certainly in a more rational and erm intellectually rigorous way than the sort of erm statements that were included in their January nineteen ninety two report . |
| 6 | Sentences and words also require interpretation — indeed they would seem to require this more obviously than pictures — and so we 're back on the circle of infinite regress . |
| 7 | It is difficult to explain why they would have maintained such popularity — for it is said that Cooper produced a painting a day — over shifts in market and social circumstances . |
| 8 | Certainly they would have had much to talk about , recalling voyages up the New England coast ; how they had dared storms together and mixed with tough Maine characters at the Jonesport summer ball , or how one of Peters 's cruises had been christened after the four B's which constituted their provisions : beans , bacon , bread , and bananas . |