Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly he shakes his head , as if he 'd just read my school report . |
| 2 | Bob and his second wife Beryl , 49 , say they 'd never sell their dream house — estimated to be worth £500,000 . |
| 3 | Then , they 'd never read their chart books , otherwise they 'd have known that the blues has always provided record companies with a regular and often low-cost source of income . |
| 4 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 5 | as if we would so dishonour our mother republic ! ’ |
| 6 | He was reported to have said that Pakistan had in 1991 frozen production of highly enriched uranium , meeting one of the US demands , but would only destroy its weapons cores if India did the same . |
| 7 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 8 | Uniting them would merely compound their dollar deficits into a larger whole . |
| 9 | On the contrary it would merely increase their anxiety level , even if there was nothing to worry about . |
| 10 | He would not make his judgement blind , |
| 11 | Studies conducted by PHC Nursing ( PHCN ) students between 1987 and 1988 showed that villagers did not believe in ORS but would carry the solution in the litre bottle to the clinic to ‘ show ’ the nurse otherwise she would not give her child muti ( medicine ) . |
| 12 | If there were to be nightmares , she could not control that ; but she would not waste her waking time frightening herself with a terror which was past . |
| 13 | One might define the lines which form the cube 's sides as the shortest distances between pairs of points ; but this would not express their motive cause which Hobbes conceives them to have . |
| 14 | But he came back to a letter from dole chiefs telling him he would not get his income support cash for the 2 1/2 weeks he was away . |
| 15 | However , there was widespread speculation that , during the course of the visit , Li had made it clear to his hosts that China would not use its UN Security Council veto to block an application for separate membership by South Korea , a country with which China was enjoying expanding trade and diplomatic links . |
| 16 | Yet what brought Edward to heel temporarily at least — was a baronial threat that they might have to find another king if he would not keep his coronation oath , which in their minds meant observing the Ordinances . |
| 17 | At this time of year he would normally move his hives north to the Derbyshire peak district , to take advantage of the flowering heather . |
| 18 | IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co promised back in December that they would formally unveil their Fibre Channel Systems Initiative ‘ in six to eight weeks ’ and that all the major workstation companies had signed up ( UX Nos 414 , 424 ) . |
| 19 | But by that time four of the enemy ships were wrecks , one was aground and two of the remainder sufficiently damaged to make it doubtful whether they would ever reach their home ports — which was most evidently the hope of the survivors , as they went through the difficult , desperate business of turning in the confined space and heading back out to sea . |
| 20 | So maybe you could sort of go back and think which one of these would possibly give me calcium carbonate , well that Good chance it might you know have a guess , that this one |
| 21 | Mom would probably give her back teeth to make a picture with McQueen but nobody would cast her if they could get Faye Dunaway . |
| 22 | Reed International said it would now pay its 7.25p final as a second interim on 5 April , while TT Group 's 3.6p final becomes a second interim to be paid on 31 March . |
| 23 | After she had been applauded and gone out again , Mick announced that he would now demonstrate his Fred Astaire number . |
| 24 | She was pleased that Faye drank it that way , since without food value it would n't affect her blood sugar level or insulin intake and therefore did n't have to be regulated in quantity and timing . |
| 25 | She became particularly angry when Mellor would n't extend his love-making motions to an all-night sitting . |
| 26 | I just love sitting and reading and doing NOTHING … a huge man came here the other day and practically THREATENED me if I would n't write my life story … offered me any money I asked for … but thank God I am well off now . |
| 27 | She kept her eyes downcast so that he would n't see its telltale signs , and sullenly dressed while he continued to pace up and down , probably trying to release some energy . |
| 28 | He would n't find her brother Francis there . |
| 29 | No they would n't , they would n't have my leather chair at this auction . |
| 30 | The canny ones would simply have their hair set and buy a good meal with the remainder . |