Example sentences of "would [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order . |
| 2 | No one would come forward to claim the body and Athelstan knew the parish watch would bury it like the decaying corpse of a dog . |
| 3 | A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . " |
| 4 | He said if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 5 | He said that if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed , he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 6 | Then I tried it on the pasture , but that was a bit rough , so I thought I would ride it down the new road through the iron gate leading out of my land . |
| 7 | He startled Philip with him , so impressed Emlyn Williams with a recitation on a London street in a blackout that Williams could recall it precisely forty years later , and introduced anybody he thought would appreciate it to the dark-vowelled , consonant-cracking language of the man whose most famous work would be Under Milk Wood , whose first performance — on radio and stage — would star Richard Burton . |
| 8 | We submit our CVs with a joint covering letter explaining about job sharing , our reasons for choosing it , and how we would apply it to the advertised post . |
| 9 | Without that proof , we would hold it against the conditional theory that it can not even show that we know that we are not brains in a vat . |