Example sentences of "would [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | That links to a question I 'd very much like to put to you , Geoffrey , and that is the British concept of doing the decent thing — I have the impression that that is almost the uniquely British concept . |
2 | Were it not fur her , I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair . |
3 | The aims of the new mental health task force , set up in January to monitor the mental health service modernisation programme ( p 000 ) , seem sensible , but if central data on the programme had been collected all along the team would not now have to go to the districts for information . |
4 | All that the jury found was that had they not done so they would probably not have survived to be rescued . |
5 | But the government 's bounty attracted industry that would probably not have come to Berlin otherwise , and might not stay without it . |
6 | Putting me and Billy together ten years back would probably never have occurred to them . |
7 | ‘ If you 'd have come to me when I was eighteen I would n't even have spoken to you . ’ |
8 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
9 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
10 | As suggested in his recent editorial by Ken Ellis of FlyPast , the huge amount of public support which has surface this year for the Vulcan and which had Parliament not been in recess would almost certainly have led to ‘ questions in the House ’ , may lead to a revision of the Official View in matters of aviation preservation . |
11 | All I wanted was to become pregnant — then I would no longer have to go to Abraham 's tent and lie next to his old , drained body . |
12 | M. Forster ’ ; he would very much have preferred to be thought the author of dull , upper-class novels , like those of Maurice Baring . ) |
13 | While manufacturers go to great lengths to produce the many excellent ‘ artificial ’ diets without which the fishkeeping hobby would certainly not have developed to today 's high standards , it is up to the fishkeeper to look more closely at the food requirements of his fish and provide what is necessary . |