Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The pill ’ made such vulnerability permissible : if a girl could no longer be ‘ got into trouble ’ then obviously she would want to participate enthusiastically in the newly fashionable and possible ‘ free love ’ . |
| 2 | However , it is some of the non-examinable subjects which would appear to fare worst in the primary school at the moment . |
| 3 | And this man said that he was a lay reader , and that he 'd retired , he 'd come back from Australia , and he though that he would like to help out in the parish . |
| 4 | At first he would have remained chiefly in the care of women , learning how to behave , how to speak in a courtly fashion , when to keep silent , how to play and sing . |
| 5 | Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa . |
| 6 | But for the military prowess of the Duke of Parma , a Spanish general who overcame the city 's resistance in the 1580s , Antwerp would have ended up in the United Provinces ( today 's Holland ) rather than the Spanish Netherlands ( today 's Belgium ) . |
| 7 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 8 | So in a sense , although I have n't recorded in the meantime , I st I still would have ended up in the same place . |
| 9 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 10 | In fact , despite the common characterization of Cambridge as the home of the Eliot-Richards-Leavis modernist and New Critical " revolution " , it is noteworthy that T. R. Henn , a prominent member of the English faculty , referred in 1933 to " the vulgarity of most of Eliot 's work , all the more pernicious since cloaked by an austere and pseudo-learned style " , comments which would have rested easily in the review section of the Review of English Studies . |
| 11 | Underlying Plekhanov 's argument is the central idea that , in order to explain a social phenomenon , one must understand not just why it did ( or does ) in fact occur , but why it would have happened even in the absence of the particular beliefs and actions that caused it . |
| 12 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | For the opportunity , if it existed at all , to make such a change would have occurred only in the context of a much more broadly based revolutionary movement . |
| 14 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 15 | Another mile or so , another thirty seconds at the most and they would have dropped harmlessly in the Channel . ’ |
| 16 | It is impossible to check the validity of this statement , as the Government has consistently refused to provide the key information necessary to make this calculation , namely details on what would have paid out in the uprating allowance of supplementary benefit had it still been in force in April 1988 . |
| 17 | She would have to walk back in the afternoon sunshine , or find somewhere to rest . |
| 18 | But Cassie strongly suspected that Johnny would have got there in the end , without any help from Bella . |
| 19 | He had to wait until nine o'clock to telephone the garage , and he had been told they had no time that morning and would try to get down in the afternoon . |
| 20 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's decision not to support the French proposal to fix the conference date in Strasbourg highlights his concern that the question of European monetary union and the inevitable transfer of powers from West Germany 's Bundesbank to the new European central bank would get caught up in the German general election next autumn . |
| 21 | And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy . |