Example sentences of "would [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 2 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 3 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 4 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 5 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 6 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 7 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 8 | He would meet me off the last train … . |
| 9 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 10 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 11 | Nor was there any reason to believe they would get it over the next thirty years , either . |
| 12 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |