Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs themselves I 'd collect at the last minute . |
| 2 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 3 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 4 | But he seemed to be about to ring off , and I said I 'd go round the next day . |
| 5 | So we thought we 'd walk to the next stop , and then we see this bag on the floor . |
| 6 | However , I imagined that the praise I received that night was merely to be a preview of the steaming sauna of appreciation that I 'd receive after the first night . |
| 7 | I 'd come round the next lap and see the black line I 'd just laid . |
| 8 | But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners . |
| 9 | Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place . |
| 10 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
| 11 | If it was above £85,000 the owners would qualify for the next band and pay £551 . |
| 12 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 13 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 14 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 15 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 16 | They waited through that day in the cave , trusting that Miss Fergusson 's condition would improve by the next morning . |
| 17 | Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase . |
| 18 | The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. . |
| 19 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |
| 20 | The question then is whether a State party to the first treaty can prevent another treaty party from entering into a later treaty from which it is excluded , but which would conflict with the first treaty . |
| 21 | Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 . |
| 22 | Any self respecting managing director in industry would recoil at the last Feethams balance sheet . |
| 23 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 24 | They seemed to be breaking up , and to the west a different valley - the one we would descend into the next day — was filling with a luminous gold haze . |
| 25 | The chancellor of the exchequer , Norman Lamont , told sceptical businessmen at the annual Institute of Directors ' conference that the economy would recover in the second half of the year . |
| 26 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 27 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 28 | ‘ The food would stop on the sixth day of January . |
| 29 | Yeah , I would have in the first place , but it was just impossible ! |
| 30 | So , while the OAS plots raised or rather revived concerns about what would happen to the Fifth Republic after its founder 's disappearance , the re-emergence of parliamentary opposition revived concerns about a restoration of the régime des partis . |