Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’ |
| 2 | It was suggested that Library staff could take over this function , since they are scanning the journals in any case , and the work would lend itself to the eventual creation of an image database , but Library staff shortages have made it impossible to undertake this work systematically . |
| 3 | Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order . |
| 4 | Such a ban on Hateley would debar him from the European Cup final in May , should Rangers overcome Marseille and then do well enough in their last Group A match , against CSKA Moscow at Ibrox . |
| 5 | No one would come forward to claim the body and Athelstan knew the parish watch would bury it like the decaying corpse of a dog . |
| 6 | She would confine herself to the final phase of Marie 's life . |
| 7 | He 'd notice and would n't mention it because mentioning would bring everything into the open again . |
| 8 | Faintly disappointed , she emptied her lungs and resumed the walk which would bring her to the main gate . |
| 9 | ‘ I had arranged with Sister Stevens that on the next occasion that Len presented with either a hangover or a stomach upset I would refer him to the occupational health centre where they would suggest counselling , as I believed Len was becoming a danger to himself and everyone else . ’ |
| 10 | I would refer you to the late . |
| 11 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 12 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 13 | She had n't guessed it would land her in the thick of a family feud . |
| 14 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 15 | Naas trainer Arthur Moore and Yorkshire-based Jimmy FitzGerald entered their star novice chasers to see what chance the handicapper would give them against the established performers in next month 's £32,000-added showpiece . |
| 16 | And hearing him Minch was pleased , for she saw that he was learning to understand others and would be ready for the harder lessons she would give him in the coming year . |
| 17 | The government 's position is that the major decisions on countering global warming will have to wait on international agreement at the 1992 UN conference on the environment , which would project them beyond the present government . |
| 18 | His days in Perugia were clearly numbered , and he would spend them like the young magistrate , on a siding running parallel to the main line but going nowhere and ending abruptly . |
| 19 | They would ally themselves with the united Labour forces and afford the possibilities of developing a mighty Peoples Front which will bring down the National Government . " |
| 20 | A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . " |
| 21 | He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed , rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt . |
| 22 | She would run around her pen at such speed that the centrifugal force would keep her on the vertical walls like a Wall of Death rider . |
| 23 | Frequently they would meet us at the Sunday-school gate , and we would go for a walk before tea . |
| 24 | Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday , which would have meant waiting around for five days . |
| 25 | They would possess none of the inherent tactile and balancing powers of hers , or that creature outside . |
| 26 | I thought he would slide me into the strait-jacket right away . |
| 27 | His last thoughts were that he would make amends for this day ; he could baptise the maiden , they could be saved together , they could marry , he would love her , his heathen maiden , no , his heathen hoyden , he liked the rhyming of that , heathen hoyden , he would cherish her beneath the fruit-laden tree . |
| 28 | Of course , such enlargements would have none of the glossy prettiness of the snaps in the guidebook . |
| 29 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 30 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |