Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] would [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also told John Chaplin that I would inform the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington ( the accident investigation authority in the USA ) of the situation so that there would be no question of action being delayed because of poor communications between the UK and the USA . |
| 2 | I 've gone to see my favourite players play — I 'd see them one night and they 'd be phenomenal and I 'd like the show so much that I would go the next night , drive two hours to see it and it would suuuuck ! and that 's just the way it is . ’ |
| 3 | So that I would n't get involved with careers officers I 'd actually make a jump and that I would do the three wise monkeys and Hilary . |
| 4 | With a grunt Toby agreed to arrange things and hoped that I would do the driving and that Jefferson intended to provide some decent champagne . |
| 5 | In the early 1960s Dr Beeching , the chairman of the railways , had cut out some of the most unprofitable rail lines and the fear was that I would do the same . |
| 6 | But it is not in the forces involved that I would locate the main divide in Britten 's operas . |
| 7 | Thus I deceived her into thinking that she had scared me , and that I would take the necessary steps to ward off fatality . |
| 8 | Pip may have the wealth and social standing of a gentleman though he is a false one whereas Joe lacks both of these though it is he , along with Herbert that I would call the true gentleman of this book . |
| 9 | ‘ I could not have my revenge on those sub-human creatures who actually killed my father , but I swore to myself that I would find the British Judas who had betrayed him and have revenge . ’ |
| 10 | They were in the suburbs and she replied that she would prefer the Royal Avenue Hotel in the centre of the city . |
| 11 | After three weeks of uncertainty the Nestor arrived in port and hopes were raised that she would sail the following day . |
| 12 | She knew that Carla was coming home with her and decided that she would take the little girl into her bed with her . |
| 13 | Do you actually mean that you want this if that case were proven that you would want the regional shopping centre in the new settlement ? |
| 14 | Is it then to see the world filled with drooping , superannuated , half-starved , helpless and unhelped animals , that you would alter the present system of pursuit and prey ? |
| 15 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 16 | He decided that we would start the next day , Thursday , at 9 a.m . |
| 17 | In fact , we have repeatedly said that we would retain the current Code of Practice on peaceful picketing which limits the number of pickets . |
| 18 | Graham says : ‘ We were assured that we would have the top 20 referees in the country taking charge of our games . |
| 19 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |
| 20 | I do n't think that we would enjoy the Victorian smog of 1880 London , so let's settle for 1850 England . |
| 21 | said that they would want the basic rate increased by more than 2p , 40 per cent . |
| 22 | As scientific courses proliferated , so this aspect became more prominent ; the people working in particular sciences came to expect of each other that they would speak the same language , and gaps between physicists , chemists , biologists , geologists and so on increased . |
| 23 | This is recognised in the Law Commission Working Paper No 85 ( 1983 ) in relation to self-assembly furniture where it was said : The goods would , of course , have to be in a condition in which they could be assembled , and if they were sold without adequate instructions it is unlikely that they would meet the required standard of quality . |
| 24 | As soon as the opportunity presented itself , the likelihood was that they would show the same determination to seize the nobility 's land that they had displayed in 1905 . |
| 25 | With England discredited , the Protestants were in a much weaker position ; from Mary of Guise 's point of view , there was now no particular reason to suppose that they would upset the old order . |
| 26 | I. , N. and R. It may be indeed that such doctors will be willing to say that they would give the very authority for mechanical intervention which the doctors who have so far given evidence did not support . |
| 27 | When the British came we thought that they would lift the Moslem yoke from off our backs . |
| 28 | All too often they are accused of exploiting cats to satisfy the competitive urges of the exhibitors , and it might be imagined that they would favour the de-clawing operation to facilitate the handling of cats when they are being judged at shows . |
| 29 | They were terrified that the Jewish authorities would come for them and that they would suffer the same fate as Jesus . |
| 30 | Immediately after the sinking of HMS Sheffield , the Royal Navy changed its policy and reprogrammed all Abbey Hill computers in the task force so that they would recognise the lethal Exocet missile as foe rather than friend . |