Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , I 'd like you to identify the three members of management that he 's dealing with , are called Barbara , oh God , what are they called , Barbara , Ted and Doughnut . |
| 2 | I said I 'd let him know the total number of , of contact days or whatever with Sherburn over the period so that is something I need to get from you Bill . |
| 3 | After that I went down on her and once she 'd come she did the same to me . |
| 4 | Everybody would be sitting there round the table having their Sunday dinner while down below them the kid would think he had the only important world to himself . |
| 5 | Pregnant or not , she had had to read out passages from the scripts which recorded Paul 's thoughts , to see how they sounded ; and he would make her rewrite the illegible parts in her neat hand at some length . |
| 6 | Elena would regard anything called the Central London Polytechnic as an institution of the same rank , and therefore worthy of her . |
| 7 | So one would know one had the right answer only if someone else repeated the calculation and got the same answer , and that did not seem very likely ! |
| 8 | by the late Seventies it was generally acknowledged that a funding system partially dependent on the departments would be unlikely to assure speedy progress towards a comprehensive service in the sector and would do nothing to reduce the substantial regional inequalities in the distribution of extra hospital facilities . |
| 9 | But they claimed the decision would do nothing to reduce the existing £240 million rates gap between Scotland and England . |
| 10 | Henry Ii planned to provide a legal framework for the continuance of his empire by asking both Richard and Geoffrey to do homage to their elder brother ; doubtless he also hoped that this clear recognition of his seniority would do something to allay the Young King 's sense of frustration . |
| 11 | Her kind would do anything to append the heavenly word ‘ artist ’ to themselves . |
| 12 | Your Board has also , of course , looked very hard at how it would ensure we maintain the present secure and friendly image of Abbey National . |
| 13 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 14 | It is not unknown for a salesman to describe the product in glowing terms and you would expect him to highlight the best features . |
| 15 | ‘ I would expect them to do the honourable thing and give me my job back . ’ |
| 16 | Mark an ‘ E ’ to indicate those issues which you think demand equal involvement and use your partner 's initials to indicate areas where you would expect them to have the major input . |
| 17 | ‘ I hope you do n't think I would use what happened the other night in any way to try and influence you . |
| 18 | Then , on 31 December , he rang back in desperation at the slow progress on the house , and told Sybille they would like her to start the next day . |
| 19 | ‘ We have always tried to co-operate with other clubs when they have wanted to switch games and would like them to do the same for us . ’ |
| 20 | And for his safety and yours an' all , I would suggest you do the latter , and quickly . ’ |
| 21 | The Mensheviks , convinced that only an early peace would enable them to consolidate the new regime , looked to the Stockholm conference in much the same spirit as did Ramsay MacDonald — to mobilize democratic forces in Western Europe to impose a negotiated peace on the warring states . |
| 22 | In my opinion the rise of absolute egalitarianism was a tactical move , the C C P hoped that land reform would be the key to the rapid mobilization of peasants which would enable them to defeat the superior forces of the K M T. They thought that the advantages of heightening peasant mobilization outweighed the drawbacks of narrowing its support base . |
| 23 | Victor Lewis-Smith killed it , in one of his Time Out columns , with a heartfelt appeal for a gadget which would enable us to break the last tiny piece of poppadam into two equal pieces . |
| 24 | This , we hoped , would permit us to see the various stages of the project in operation from the time when a school began to plan its proposal to the time when the materials purchased with project funds were already in use . |
| 25 | He would lead us to believe the classic amp designers were mere technicians , while he 's been making tube amps since 1957 . |
| 26 | The experience of other advanced economies would lead us to expect the increasing dominance of larger manufacturing firms who can benefit more from economies of scale as the level of output and capital investment increases . |
| 27 | It would mean someone put the wrong tags on the ankles , possibly during the panic over the fire alarm . ’ |
| 28 | £560 if you were hospitalised for a week after being involved in an accident as the NatWest Hospital Income Plan would pay you DOUBLE the normal rate for hospitalisation . |
| 29 | Most certainly , it would pay us to do the right thing . |
| 30 | They had rounded up an excellent spoil of beasts , and would drive them to meet the main host at Birdoswald or thereabouts , in a short time . |