Example sentences of "[conj] would [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ? |
| 2 | So in small Japanese firms average tenure may be higher but only one in six men have the 20 years or more of tenure that would place them on the higher parts of their wage profile . |
| 3 | The national brewers , whose attitude to staff and tenants would bring a blush to the face of the average Victorian mill owner , object to new legislation that would deprive them of the right to evict tenants and their families at a moment 's notice . |
| 4 | None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above . |
| 5 | Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night . |
| 6 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 7 | They were standing on the jetty with a score of chattering women , waiting for the launch that would take them to the depot ship Omega . |
| 8 | They could n't have been so very far behind them — in fact they should have passed them unless — unless Silas had decided to turn along the road that would take them to the bush walk . |
| 9 | Labour says that it will reverse every step that the Government have taken to protect businesses , and would leave them to the mercy of Labour 's own local councils . |
| 10 | Their toisech would greet them , in his cone helmet with its metal nose-guard and his tunic of ring-mail over leather , and would lead them to the wing of the army commanded by my lord Ferteth , their Mormaer , and my lord Gillecrist , the Mormaer for Lennox and Strathclyde . |
| 11 | It was risky — the sentry would be sure to hear their horse as it picked up speed — but crossing the dangerous waters of the Severn at night was riskier , and would point them in the wrong direction for Winchester . |