Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] would [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all other respects , I agree with the opinion of my Lord , Lord Lowry ; but for the reason I have given I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 2 | For the reasons I have given I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 3 | Unless entry into partnership between firms is actually intended , steps should be taken to ensure that nothing is done which would create such relationship . |
| 4 | We are in close touch with our allies on this matter to see the ways by which assistance can perhaps be given , and contracts can be placed , for valuable work to be done which would occupy such scientists , in addition to the part that they might also play more directly in some of the work involved in the dismantling and disabling programme of that massive nuclear arsenal . |
| 5 | She shuddered again , remembering that the church pastoral visitor had said she would pay another visit that day . |
| 6 | Some bigwig fuck off cunt erm wanker judge in London has decided it would make less paperwork . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought we 'd agreed I 'd cover that region , ’ Steve said , giving her his full attention now , his grey eyes narrowing quizzically . |
| 8 | A new system was needed which would avoid these contradictions and which so unified existing rights in land as to ‘ enable shifts of value to operate within the same ownership ’ . |
| 9 | Whereas the medical and schools I would n't have thought you 'd have any problem with . |
| 10 | ‘ I should n't have thought you 'd have any reason to stay longer . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ One would have thought she 'd have more sense certainly . |
| 12 | Anabelle felt like curling up in a ball and plugging her ears until they all went away — and she would have , too , if she had thought it would do any good . |
| 13 | Why had n't she stood her ground ; simply called Luke 's bluff — even pleaded with him if she 'd thought it would do any good ? |
| 14 | So we 've got one two three four five six seven eight nine timer You 'd of thought it would erase that time on time off thing in n it ? |
| 15 | When lit it would warm both sides and make the atmosphere cosy . |
| 16 | ‘ But then , I might have known you would take that attitude . |
| 17 | Most people believe that the British tax system is highly progressive , that is , the more you earn the more you pay , and the routine chant of those who earn most is that they are over-taxed , that ‘ if taxes were reduced we 'd have more incentive to work harder ’ . |
| 18 | For as many years as he was allotted he would remember this girl and love her . |
| 19 | Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces . |
| 20 | Why should it be imagined she would enjoy such lies ? |
| 21 | While she 'd been gone he 'd put some music on the stereo . |
| 22 | In some cases , a Zuwayi who had unwittingly offended someone would constrain that person to forgive him by offering compensation and sacrificing animals to him . |
| 23 | She 'd wondered who 'd handle that side of it somehow she could n't imagine the night manager himself with a housekeeping trolley piled high with sheets and towels . |
| 24 | On 7 April Irwin was writing to the Secretary of State that the Mahatma 's health was poor and that his horoscope had predicted he would die that year , which would be , he said , ‘ a very happy solution ’ . |