Example sentences of "[Wh pn] would [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 2 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 3 | His hero is a stick who would have contributed to The New Statesman . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) Whether the customer could have found another party who would have contracted without the exemption clause . |
| 5 | The Javanese dignitaries , who would have disapproved of the suggestion , were already stirring to depart in their jeeps for Makassar to catch their plane home . |
| 6 | As to Wayne Proctor , there were those who would have gone for the former Welsh hurdler , Nigel Walker , though , heaven knows , Proctor , the fastest player in the side , was himself no mean athlete in his schooldays . |
| 7 | He blamed his parents for being over-ambitious on his behalf ; a claim denied , said the prosecution , by his sister , who would have talked of the love and support of their parents . |
| 8 | Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " . |
| 9 | He knew some actresses , hard-boiled as eight-minute eggs , who would have revelled in the situation , casting themselves as femmes fatales with enormous relish . |