Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [pers pn] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A preliminary assessment suggests that perhaps three quarters of these specimen clauses would be caught , but that the remainder of them would need specific implementation . |
| 2 | She began inching towards him , hugging the face of the cliff , praying that the rock beneath her would hold . |
| 3 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
| 4 | Asquith thought that the erosion of his would lead to the growth of an irresponsible opposition , undermining the near unanimity of support for the war effort . |
| 5 | But now , going to the Mountains of the Moon without her would have been heart-breaking , and I was overjoyed when she decided to join me . |
| 6 | The distance between them would indicate a gate with at least two portals . |
| 7 | That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about . |
| 8 | They dumped his body outside the Hizbollah 's offices with a note saying that the rest of them would die in a similar fashion if the three diplomats were not released . |
| 9 | ODDEST sight of the week : top Tory ‘ mandarin ’ Allan Clarke giggling at the readers ' tips in Viz : ‘ Taxi drivers , why not pop into your local garage and have your indicators fixed then the rest of us would know where you 're going … |
| 10 | We all had the right to do this , but the rest of us would acknowledge the others ' right to know what was going on and why . |
| 11 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
| 12 | How many of the rest of you would say that you got where you are today , in your area of expertise , with trial and error . |
| 13 | Oh , Penry , I just wish the rest of it would fall into place ! ’ |
| 14 | If this book were written in proportion to the number of species in the group the rest of it would have to be devoted to the insects . |
| 15 | None of the overtones of subordination and all the rest of it would have been present to the Hebrew . |
| 16 | One or the other of them would insist on having you to stay . |
| 17 | Wetting the underneath of the saddle with it would have been more than enough to kill the horse . |
| 18 | I just thought that something like that it would be very good practice but if you have a related documents to have a record of the enquiry with it would make sense of the enquiry , even if our situation was different to the other divisions . |
| 19 | The quality of it would arouse her and she would grab at him . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 21 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 22 | The mechanics of it would capture the young imagination . |
| 23 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 24 | It would be the amount of I would anticipate the managed fund . |
| 25 | Sometimes all the lot of us would play there , marbles was another favourite game . |
| 26 | He had only to close his eyes and the image of her would come to him , taking his breath . |
| 27 | Geologists realized that the formation of the rocks and the fossils in them would have taken hundreds or thousands of millions of years . |
| 28 | Philip hoped he 'd find his dog and the pair of them would clear off . |
| 29 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 30 | A pail of ice-cold water over the pair of them would have been the best idea . |