Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any story which carries the imputation of discreditable conduct by somebody will be actionable by a plaintiff who can show that at least some readers would recognise him as the person being criticised , or that the facts in the story necessarily imply such an allegation against him . |
| 2 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |
| 3 | I always wanted to be an actor since I was about five and my parents would take me to the cinema and theatre . |
| 4 | I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours . |
| 5 | ‘ And that actually created some problems for me , because guitarists would call me from the States or Britain and say , ‘ I want the sound that George Lynch gets on ‘ Lock And Key ’ . |
| 6 | Enterprising boatbuilders would build it in the hull and superstructures of their rather than tack things on as at present . |
| 7 | For example , for a repair the owner of the goods would supply them to the UK repairer who , using its VAT number , would account for acquisition tax in the normal way . |
| 8 | Of course , such enlargements would have none of the glossy prettiness of the snaps in the guidebook . |
| 9 | The white passengers would avail themselves of the services of a hotel , in a colonial verandaed style not unlike that of the station itself , just beside the tracks . |
| 10 | I listened to one choral song from Southwark Cathedral , prayers were said for a family whose names would mean nothing to the vast majority of listeners . |
| 11 | Living next door to the churchyard , I was also interested in the occasional work of the gravedigger , and after school hours would help him with the digging or the filling in of a grave , again without any sadness and certainly no feeling of fear . |
| 12 | His meticulously kept accounts reveal a landed income of about £5,000 per annum and total assets at death worth about £180,000 , a sum which if translated roughly into modern values would put him into the multimillionaire category . |
| 13 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 14 | A couple of wins would take them to the edge of the promotion race . |
| 15 | A number of GRIST coordinating staff doubted whether arts teachers would avail themselves of the opportunity to comment on their INSET need , as GRIST , section 27. i. , requires . |
| 16 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 17 | The young Sheikh and his friends would stretch themselves on the carpet around us , their white kandoras in the half-light of night making a scene of extraordinary beauty . |
| 18 | Sometimes a little block of five or six men would detach itself from the larger mass and drift off in the direction of the track . |
| 19 | His driver and an assistant were told to leave ; the police would accompany him to the border . |
| 20 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 21 | There were coastal villages in Celebes and Borneo where the men would scowl and stride away , the women would slam their doors and window shutters in our faces , and the children would follow us down the street in howling , baiting hordes , challenging us to lose our poise . |
| 22 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 23 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 24 | Both states were regarded as not only undesirable but criminal : after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 , police prosecutions against homosexuals reached a peak in 1953/4 , while the scare headlines accorded by the press to the Clapham Common murder in the summer of 1953 lodged in the public 's heads the equation that people who wore Edwardian clothes would knife you at the drop of a hat . |