Example sentences of "would [verb] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to see the same thing happen to them . ’ |
| 2 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 3 | I would like to do the same thing to them |
| 4 | I would like to stay the same age so I could play football . |
| 5 | Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years . |
| 6 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 7 | By that they mean that multiplying them together in either order would have to give the same result . |
| 8 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
| 9 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 10 | He was disgusted by Pete , but they would have to share the same space for years . |
| 11 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 12 | He would have to make the same improvement as his stable-companion Forest Sun did from Chepstow to Ascot to be given a sporting chance here . |
| 13 | Then , at the end of the day , wet and tired , they would have to make the same walk back again . |
| 14 | We would have to meet the same conditions — no more , no less . |
| 15 | Structure and local land would have to follow the same criteria . |
| 16 | They can work at speed , and make several passes in less time than it would take to plough the same area with mould-board equipment . |
| 17 | Morgan ( 1975 : 442 ) asks ‘ What can we infer about the speaker 's intentions from the fact that he has chosen this particular description , rather than any of the others which would call to mind the same referent ? ’ |
| 18 | According to Kuhn , normal science and revolutions serve necessary functions , so that science must either involve those characteristics or some others that would serve to perform the same functions . |
| 19 | Even if we were to change the linear arrangement , the three words presented in association would serve to indicate the same process and the same roles of the participants : |
| 20 | erm and and ladies perhaps would tend to do the same sort of thing . |
| 21 | They are also relatively stable across contexts : for instance , a topless swim-suit would seem to exemplify the same sense of topless as ( a ) , and a topless barmaid the same as ( b ) . |
| 22 | They would seem to have the same purpose . |