Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] would [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorcas began to really wish the old woman would n't do that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most of the breakers kept a portion for themselves , knowing that the unlucky punter would eventually pay that portion once again . |
| 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 | ( Advocates of managed trade would doubtless dispute that . ) |
| 7 | Only a bone-headed Government would not accept that , by taking away young people 's ability to claim benefit and housing benefit and the opportunity to receive a decent reward for a training scheme , and by halving the value of the training allowance in the past 12 years , they are picking on young people who , at the same time , are being pushed ever further towards the consumer society . |
| 8 | For a little while she 'd almost managed to forget about Marianne. , She should have known the other woman would n't allow that to remain the case for very long . |