Example sentences of "would [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Ximena 's heart failed her , and she asked the Cid if peradventure God would deliver him from these enemies . |
| 2 | For example , Hungary , Poland and Romania were inserted into the upper-middle-income group , where their apparent per capita income scores would locate them in any case , whereas Angola , Cuba and North Korea were transplanted from lower-middle-income to nonreporting nonmembers . |
| 3 | ‘ There is nothing , ’ she said caustically , ‘ that you could do that would make me in any way feel good . ’ |
| 4 | He had n't admitted this for fear it would disqualify him from this part of the mission , and anyway he had thought he would feel safe behind the comforting protection of a pump-action . |
| 5 | ‘ Roman , I have never imagined you would hurt me in any way ! |
| 6 | Both Lewis and Pound hoped that the Nobel would free him of that cautiousness which had smoothed his ascent . |
| 7 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 8 | Worse , nothing in the data itself would alert us to this fact . |
| 9 | She still doubted whether Roirbak would betray her in this way , but perhaps Lennon was right and Quincx had been duped by Malamute . |
| 10 | Papa says that most horses would envy me in that line ! ’ |
| 11 | I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne . |
| 12 | Conrad , meanwhile , was marching northward in the mistaken belief that desultory Russian mobilization would present him with little opposition from the east . |
| 13 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 14 | I would employ him in any position in my organisation at any time . ’ |
| 15 | There was scant eating in the meat , but it would sustain him for some days , assuming he could keep the scent away from wolves . |
| 16 | Just so you know how much time you 've got left , Lorna , I would like you off that table please ! |
| 17 | He had positioned himself in a narrow doorway , in the vain hope it would provide him with some shelter from the biting cold . |
| 18 | Will it be the council , on the ground that the upper band would provide it with more money , or will it be the householder ? |
| 19 | From now on , she would touch him in any way she pleased , even when neither of them was feeling sexy , because she would still be feeling loving — for as long as the affair lasted . |
| 20 | DeVore laughed , knowing the drug would last for hours yet — would keep him at this peak until he had done with her . |
| 21 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 22 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 23 | ‘ I wish someone would ruin me with that sort of money . ’ |
| 24 | A trip to Tory Wandsworth would cure him of this delusion . |
| 25 | Well they would move them round this fella himself , but it 's gon na be a hell of a lot of money to get them to do that . |
| 26 | ‘ Not that she would have me in any event . ’ |
| 27 | Smiled and said he would have her under any circumstances . |
| 28 | And so Fenella said , ‘ I wish you a safe journey , ’ and was pleased that her voice came out firm and perfectly calm , as if she was quite accustomed to seeing her brother off on a journey to the Court of a Sorceress , which would take him past all manner of weird and darkly enchanted places . |
| 29 | The monkeys had to be deprived of their regular food and accustomed to the peanuts for weeks before they would take them with any readiness , let alone treat the nuts as rewards for appropriate behaviour . |
| 30 | and , you do n't see that wee bit through there which would take you into that bedroom there |