Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa .
3 Had it not been for human kindess he would have ended up in a pork pie .
4 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 ) .
5 ‘ 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 !
6 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 .
7 She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage .
8 Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm .
9 Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’
10 ‘ 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 .
11 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 .
12 She would have to walk back in the afternoon sunshine , or find somewhere to rest .
13 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 .
14 ( For relatively poor States , whose residents would benefit most from programmes designed to aid those suffering from poverty , refusal to participate would mean losing out in a potentially redistributive process . )
15 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 .
16 And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy .
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