Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] would [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No decision has yet been taken on how United Kingdom delegates will be apportioned and I would welcome the hon. Gentleman 's ideas . |
| 2 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 3 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 4 | I would start by throwing Cynthia away and I would sit the little children on a shelf while I swept the crumbs off the floor . ’ |
| 5 | Under the bishop 's plan he and I were to change places , and while I was on furlough he was to keep both jobs going , and I would do the same on my return . |
| 6 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |
| 7 | ( In later years , adult years , while sitting in London stuffed with wholemeal digestives soaked in tea , I would be filled with the wheat and candour of this smell , and I would hold the digestive as long as I could in my mouth , as if aiming to grasp its exact ingredient and texture , to become its body and its recipe ) . |
| 8 | Well , if there are n't any questions er , I would return to the resolutions , er , separately and I would propose the first one which is an ordinary resolution namely it 's resolution one , set out in the notice of meeting to increase the authorized share capital of the company . |
| 9 | But normally you find that erm both Stan and I would consider the large goods vehicles drivers as being the professionals , because you are driving all the time . |
| 10 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 11 | Nigel used to say , ‘ If you can read , you can cook , ’ and I would say the same of gardening . |
| 12 | However , ‘ there would be swearing , there would be people coming in drunk … staggering from the local pubs into the ground , but they were a tiny , tiny minority and you would get the odd fight breaking out ’ . |
| 13 | He 'd play last across with the trains , no wonder he was killed by a train , he had many near misses , he always appears on the anniversary of his death and you would see the whole incident in startling detail . ’ |
| 14 | He would thrash ; and she would make the same wound and stitch it . |
| 15 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
| 16 | If Catherine wanted something , I would give it to her , and she would do the same for me . |
| 17 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 18 | Her daughter would be perpetually in her debt , perpetually chained to her , and she would have the new stimulus of another baby to bring up . |
| 19 | Before , he would splatter , and she would take the same pigment , the same colours , and assemble . |
| 20 | Oh , and she would take the folding bike . |
| 21 | Yes , as soon as she was through sunbathing she would amble into the village , which she knew reasonably well , and she would use the public phone box to get in touch with her father . |
| 22 | ‘ This is already an area of outstanding natural beauty and we would welcome the extra money without the extra bureaucracy . ’ |
| 23 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 24 | I confirm that , when undertaking a review we would consider what the board has done , how it has done it and whether it had achieved its objectives and we would draw the appropriate conclusions . |
| 25 | If the association was perfect , all the points would lie on the line , and there would be no spread in the residuals ; 100 per cent of the original spread would be accounted for , and we would describe the two variables as being perfectly correlated . |
| 26 | He used to call here sometimes in spring and we would have the utmost difficulty in keeping his seraglio out of the house . |
| 27 | There were occasions when someone did a large number , and they would bring the job-sheet round and show the others and say ‘ She has done so many , you also must . ’ |
| 28 | A large pond was the boys ' delight and they would travel the considerable distance to the ‘ newty ’ pond , as it was nicknamed , to sit in expectation for the fish to bite . |
| 29 | They would not enable the courts to interfere where there clearly has been a breach of procedural fairness ; and they would permit the inferior tribunals to exceed the limited powers which Parliament has conferred upon them . |
| 30 | At the Watford Gaumont , which I managed , people would come in dinner dress and they would have the same seat every week . |