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

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1 That is why some people adore eating spiders and grubs , whilst others would throw up if fed a pork chop .
2 Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party .
3 ’ — A response which would damage rather than increase the influence of the Merkuts in the Khanate , ’ Alexei observed .
4 And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman .
5 The Prime Minister argued against him , and when opinion swung heavily in the Chancellor 's favour he indicated that he would resign rather than accept the settlement .
6 We arranged that if we were attacked we would break away and form a defensive circle . ’
7 The truckloads of returned prisoners drove past the office and the girls draped the banner between two windows and hung from the window ringing a handbell so that the men would look up and see the banner and hear them cheering .
8 When the hearings came on , they explained , they would run upstairs and lock the door , or try to switch channels , or read the comics , or tidy the house .
9 If the foe seemed too large or numerous to deal with , he would withdraw discreetly and leave the witless Cleo to her fate .
10 They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then .
11 Locals predicted that it would be allowed to fall down and then the property developing Mafia would move in and build a housing estate on the fourteen acres , by means of a considerable backhander to the Council .
12 Soccer officialdom , as Mr Clough observed ‘ thought I would take over and run the show .
13 Parents ' reports of birth weight and gestational age are sufficiently accurate for analysis and not necessarily worse than hospital case notes ; lack of accuracy would decrease rather than increase the strength of the observed associations .
14 The partnership would capitalise Newco sufficiently to meet the redemption obligations on the debentures and , if Newco became the beneficial owner of more than 25% of the ordinary share capital of Target , prima facie s135 TCGA 1992 would apply so as to preclude a disposal on the exchange of Target shares for Newco debentures , though it would be advisable to obtain from the Inland Revenue advance clearance for this sort of structure under s138 .
15 Whenever a female singer reached a high A , the cat would reach out and close the songstress 's mouth with her paw .
16 She might not have succeeded in warning Guy , but she did n't think Brien fitzCount would stand by and allow the Queen 's equerry to be murdered while he was on official business .
17 Neither we nor the Western world as such would stand by and see the straits of the Persian Gulf closed to international traffic .
18 Erm , but an awful lot of people who would go up and make a fuss may not get this , the same level of services erm , somebody who went up there and was nice .
19 I wished they would go somewhere and fight a duel to the death , and that it would end in a draw .
20 If such an agreement was not forthcoming , the Russians would go ahead and sign a treaty with East Germany , a state not recognized by the USA .
21 They were also worried that the USA would go ahead and plan a postwar aviation policy before they could even begin one .
22 Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper .
23 Later he would go out and stroll the city before his noon date at the Smithsonian and the afternoon meeting with the Secret Service .
24 Indeed , some would go further and criticize the liberal variant of normativism on the ground that that doctrine is based on what might be called ‘ the Rationalist Fallacy ’ in political thinking ; that human beings act on rational motives .
25 I thought that I would go in and explain the whole thing to him and explain that there was no point in creating trouble unnecessarily .
26 The judge said that the arrangement reached between Bunn and the husband was that the latter ‘ would go home and discuss the matter with his wife over the weekend . ’
27 The superimposition of massive conventional forces on what should have been an atomic strategy , made no sense to Churchill , who appreciated that financial pressures would reduce rather than increase the number of divisions that Britain could contribute to Western European defence .
28 A former Labour Prime Minister got that far in his thinking in the 1970s when he pointed out that one could not have high inflation and lots of employment and that high inflation would reduce rather than increase the number of jobs .
29 It was agreed that on R Pankhurst 's return from leave , he and CW would get together and draft a paper for Management Group .
30 Someone would come along and find a unified theory that would do away with indeterminate interpretations , you 'd say , and revert to causality .
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