Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When consulted on the alterations , the ladies considered that it was wiser to spend on greens and approaches but ‘ if on the clubhouse then for the caretaker ’ — i.e. a larger kitchen and scullery ’ , although they admitted they would like more basins and another w.c . |
| 2 | Immediately they thought they would make a fortune if they were able to sell this food in shops . |
| 3 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 4 | he had , he had a definite attitude problem so they said they would relieve him of his contract oh that 's fair enough , they 're paying you good money and they expect you to work hard and that 's it but we finish at one o'clock next term |
| 5 | Lord — was a harmless man , with hardly any land , so they decided it would have to be him . |
| 6 | Soon Alison would know , the Carters would know , everyone would know , and once they knew they would cut me dead . |
| 7 | No one quite ascended to poster cliché heaven and declared that ‘ Michelle Pfeiffer is so sexy it 's a crime ’ , but if they had it would have emphasised some of the ironies that underly Michelle Pfeiffer 's striking star profile . |
| 8 | Perhaps if they had he would have been trying just a little harder and not preparing himself , as he was , for a long night of fornication . |
| 9 | " I was on teams with older girls and if they drank I would follow suit , " she explained . |
| 10 | They were always having a go , the hard men , those who 'd blow up the Pope if they thought it would help the cause . |
| 11 | Next day a newspaper reporter asked the young men if they thought it would have been fair for the crowd to kill them . |
| 12 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 13 | Some might choose to describe these persons as " temporary workers " , but if they did they would have to recognise that they are also " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 14 | I stayed still , hoping desperately that they would not see me , for I knew that if they did they would lose no time in tormenting me and finally killing me . |
| 15 | But surely if they did they would find it easily enough . |
| 16 | We will never know how that would develop because community charge has been abolished but anyway You will note of course as well that last year in nineteen ninety one , the Conservative Party managers looked at the local election result and decided not to go in June ninety one , cos they figured they would get beaten . |
| 17 | Behind Psychic TV exists an occult , disparate breed of hipsters heavily into Gary Glitter , early Sabbath , Arthur Brown , Grateful Dead just because they know it would scandalize the prevailing arbiters of taste . |
| 18 | The couple , who live in a village in the New Forest , took the baby back to the hospital because they feared they would become too fond of her , but have now taken her back . |
| 19 | Most students liked to talk a lot because they thought it would impress the professors . |
| 20 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 21 | The trouble was , although they 'd got me to do it — maybe because they knew it would save them money , or maybe because you ca n't get that kind of work done by your usual process shop — I did n't know how to do colour separations . |
| 22 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , so old Wilson used to tell us that lots of men opposed it because they felt it would lead to women in trousers sitting in pubs drinking pints of bitter . |
| 24 | Isabel needed his protection as far as Winchester , and if he did n't have those answers before they arrived he would keep her under restraint until he unlocked every secret she possessed . |
| 25 | This option was , however , never used without the agreement of the chairmen , and then only on those rare occasions when they felt it would help secure acceptance of unpopular measures by their colleagues and the broader public . |
| 26 | The judges handed the Tobacco Institute of Australia something of a pyrrhic victory when they said they would set aside Justice Morling 's injunction on the further publication of the advertisement on the legalistic basis that the Tobacco Institute of Australia had previously indicated to the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations that it would not republish the advertisement anyway . |
| 27 | ‘ And we told her when they said she would die . |
| 28 | The plan backfired when they realised they would need mountains of paper to earn just a few pence . |
| 29 | And if they thought that she was going to invite Colin and Yvonne in for a drink when they arrived they would get a shock . |
| 30 | There was a ring of thorn trees that we never cut , d'ye see ? for they said 't would annoy the Little People . ’ |