Example sentences of "would [vb infin] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 2 | Naas trainer Arthur Moore and Yorkshire-based Jimmy FitzGerald entered their star novice chasers to see what chance the handicapper would give them against the established performers in next month 's £32,000-added showpiece . |
| 3 | The government 's position is that the major decisions on countering global warming will have to wait on international agreement at the 1992 UN conference on the environment , which would project them beyond the present government . |
| 4 | Cumberland , an eye-witness recorded , ‘ jumped around the room with joy ’ on learning he could resume his pursuit of the rebels , ‘ and declared that he would follow them to the further part of Scotland . ’ |
| 5 | His days in Perugia were clearly numbered , and he would spend them like the young magistrate , on a siding running parallel to the main line but going nowhere and ending abruptly . |
| 6 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |
| 7 | Some would take them to the top half of the dale , and the others the bottom half . |
| 8 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 9 | When Soviet citizens began to question the merits of nuclear energy , they were questioning one of the most basic assumptions of their system : that communism would lead them into the high-tech future , and that the high-tech future would be greatly better than the present . |
| 10 | Pray that God would protect them from the evil spiritual powers that they are contacting . |
| 11 | What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ? |
| 12 | It was risky — the sentry would be sure to hear their horse as it picked up speed — but crossing the dangerous waters of the Severn at night was riskier , and would point them in the wrong direction for Winchester . |
| 13 | So in small Japanese firms average tenure may be higher but only one in six men have the 20 years or more of tenure that would place them on the higher parts of their wage profile . |
| 14 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |
| 15 | She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks , with terrific speed . |