Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [adv] [vb infin] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would have given it around 90% of seats in the lower house and , since the opposition would never accept that prospect , the bill seemed destined for the dustbin . |
| 2 | Then he would place them on one of the old time boards which was er board about nine inches by nine inches and then hand that through the pigeon hole to the cashier and in front of him that cashier would laboriously count that money and agree the total there and then . |
| 3 | Most of the breakers kept a portion for themselves , knowing that the unlucky punter would eventually pay that portion once again . |
| 4 | The little girl would always remember that moment , and the picture of her mother , so beautiful and so elegant in her top hat and long dark riding habit , mounted side-saddle on her famous grey hunter . |
| 5 | Piecemeal highlights are all very well , but viewers tend to be creatures of habit and , at present , a short burst of goals every Saturday night is just a tease ; an uninitiated visitor would never guess that football was the national game . |
| 6 | In a recent insolvency case before the Court of First Instance , it was claimed by an applicant that disclosing an agreement to a national authority would irreparably damage that party 's relations with its own national government . |
| 7 | Even so , Clarke concedes that every A&R man would probably give that image of himself . |
| 8 | Acquiescence in , or acceptance of , this wording would therefore imply that convocation , too , was another royal court at the mercy of royal directions as to its procedure and business . |
| 9 | Seamus Mallon , MP of the SDLP may have seen the Hillsborough agreement of 1985 as a step towards a united Ireland , but some of his co-politicians in the party would not share that view . |
| 10 | Polyfilla and concrete would n't cover that spot . |