Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlord said that we could have the hall on Sunday evenings to run the club , and we could have it for nothing as he would make his money on increased bar sales . |
| 2 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 3 | It 's probably not to yourselves providing the compensation was paid and that 's fine , but it would be a matter of great importance to those for whom that it would have to provide the money . |
| 4 | We kept putting food on the ledge for them and they would go out for relatively short flights and then return . |
| 5 | He especially liked to be taken to the home of a couple , to sleep securely between them if they 'd let him , and then in the morning to ask them questions about their house , about the furniture which they 'd chosen together . |
| 6 | It seems a bit funny for me cos I 'd have thought the kitchen was at the back so then you 'd have your dining room then . |
| 7 | " When I discovered I was pregnant , Michael was more worried for me and what would happen at school and with my mum than anything else . |
| 8 | Karen had done her bit for me and I would have been more than happy to reciprocate . |
| 9 | ‘ I was training at Leeds yesterday morning and Mr Wilkinson came and said that Blackburn were in for me and I would have to go . |
| 10 | ‘ I can think of nothing that I would like less . ’ |
| 11 | A woman who was afraid of nothing and who would feed him , starch his linen , give him peace and quiet in which to compose his speeches , until the campaign should be over . |
| 12 | There were dozens of them and they would have overpowered the future king had not a band of Chracian hunters seen what was happening and intervened . |
| 13 | ‘ I did a section on one incisor from each of them and I would estimate both the man 's and woman 's age as in the early twenties . ’ |
| 14 | if you , you was all clawing to get one of them cos you 'd make a bit more of it . |
| 15 | Aged 34 , Mr Gates is bright , opinionated , decisive and every bit as sure of himself as one would expect from a man who was a billionaire by the age of 30 . |
| 16 | The old zek , the one who took care of himself and who would walk out of Camp 3 , Zone I , when his time came . |
| 17 | ‘ In Berlin , where I come from , oh yes many years ago , before those foul Nazis besmirched the country , they would have said of you that you would make a great beauty , a grande dame sans merci . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd take care of you and I 'd love you . |
| 19 | We do n't see as much of you as we 'd like to ( if we see you at all ) . |
| 20 | There is much speculation about the advent of fifth-generation machines which , it is proposed , will be capable of learning , extrapolation , ratiocination and imagination — and hence , possibly , of something that we would recognize as emotion . |
| 21 | Now think of something that you would like to communicate along these lines , and write your own sentence of criticism . |
| 22 | Surely he 'd be so grateful to be free of her that he 'd agree ? |
| 23 | I needed to fly dead into wind approaching the pilot , but keeping him on my right , and I 'd drop the dinghy slightly upwind of him so it would blow downwind to him . |
| 24 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 25 | If the figure on the cross had been the last sight of him , we would have heard nothing more of him and there would have been no Church . |
| 26 | There was many 's a tramp that would have taken the A nine then but this one in particular and he was very very fond of him and he would ask when he was around to that he would get over to see him . |
| 27 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 28 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 29 | But she just bash it out of it and it 'd hit his face and of course he went mad then . |
| 30 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |