Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is assuming that all those people now paid below what his party would bring in as a minimum wage would keep their jobs . |
| 2 | Patrick Kelly , whom Dan would look on as an ill-educated lout , had actually spent time on her enjoyment . |
| 3 | From time to time he would look back with a certain pride at them . |
| 4 | He could see the longer teeth at the sides of her mouth and the folds of wet black skin that at any moment would draw back in a threatening snarl . |
| 5 | On employment , the Labour party would sign up for a massive extension of Community competence and majority voting in the name of the social charter . |
| 6 | Will he contrast that with the words of the Leader of the Opposition to the effect that Labour would sign up to a single currency now , irrevocably ? |
| 7 | Angie and I would ride around in a scarlet limo with a television in the back and a bar and a huge 20 stone black guy as our bodyguard in the front . |
| 8 | If it were n't , the star would collapse down to a certain size and then stay like that . |
| 9 | Erm but our summary really would be that if one followed the County Councils proposals , this county would end up with a severe housing shortage . |
| 10 | For iron it is about 1000 K. This is a plausible explanation of the Mercurian field , though it is not certain that a slowly cooling core would end up with an appreciable magnetic dipole moment . |
| 11 | Freeze-frame almost any moment in this visually striking piece and one would end up with an abstract and richly textured landscape evoking the bright southern light of Margarit 's native Spain . |
| 12 | Er it 's it was marked , I think , from the early discussion Chairman that er Watford , er would end up as a new fire station . |
| 13 | They were spectacular efforts often launched some distance from the target , who would be dillying and dallying with his foot on the ball when , suddenly and without warning , he would end up in a twisted heap at the bottom of our wall amid a terrible noise of stud on bone . |
| 14 | There is an ugly lump on his right fist and Thornton does n't sound too confident when asked whether it would stand up to a hard fight . |
| 15 | ‘ He can only drive a specially-adapted car and that would stand out like a sore thumb if he was moving about doing something related to terrorism ’ , Mrs Drumgoole said . |
| 16 | They said the mules would go round by a good track but we 'd explore the river . |
| 17 | Then I 'd go down the town buy us all clothes then , you and I would go out for a private dinner Jean . |
| 18 | It was certainly correct to put Jim Prior , Peter Walker and Ian Gilmour firmly in the ‘ wet ’ camp and Keith Joseph would go down as an undoubted ‘ dry ’ , but for most of the rest of us our opinion depended upon the issue . |
| 19 | Five clubs would go down from a reformed league of 14 clubs in the First Division , with the Second Division champions being promoted . |
| 20 | Things would quieten down for a little while and the huddles be reformed , but before long there was the crack of a whip and a pony and trap would dash down the field . |
| 21 | I still found the argument extraordinary , but I also had to take into account the fact that if Nigel retained this stance then the committee meeting would have to be postponed and the whole exercise would get off to a terrible start . |
| 22 | ’ It 's not as if they would add up to a great sum . ’ |
| 23 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 24 | You will have to explain exactly why the first report was useless , why the particular expert was chosen and why you think that a new expert would come up with a case-winning report . |
| 25 | Occasionally these protégés would come up with a one-off prestige film which could be used to show how respectable and serious Hollywood had become . |
| 26 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 27 | ‘ It is , of course , no accident , ’ he said out loud , testing to see if the words would come out on a printed page in a bound volume , ‘ that redundant theological speculation about the death of God should run parallel with an equally tedious literary preoccupation with the death of the novel . ’ |
| 28 | From time to time , Patrick would come out with a forthright remark about something we were n't actually discussing . |
| 29 | Erm we have twenty people in , in a group and we go around and ask then how much post school technical and professional training they 've had , we would come out with an average group of a total of about a hundred years of post school professional and technical training . |
| 30 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |