Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably some , who considered the idea of Making Ends Meet unacceptable and unbecoming , i.e. those enjoying the thrusting Live-Now-Pay-Later lifestyle of the 1990s , would think differently if they knew that the cost of borrowing the £5,000 that would extricate them from the consequences of their cavalier attitude would cost them almost another £5,000 . |
| 2 | For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne . |
| 3 | She would eat fast if she felt like it . |
| 4 | For many disabled people , unwanted dependence on others would disappear overnight if they lived in a physical environment which did not handicap them . |
| 5 | She would wait up till he came back and then she 'd speak to him . |
| 6 | I also felt , as I 'm sure everybody does , that the office would fall apart when I left and that nobody would be able to take over my cases , and I worried about what state they would be in when I came back . |
| 7 | ‘ You would know immediately if you heard a Delta song . |
| 8 | They would know more when they had the report from Ballistics . |
| 9 | Steve would feel exactly as she had felt when she had thought Fernando was the father of that child — absolute desolation . |
| 10 | Her worst fear had been that Jake would show up before they had even left Lomond View . |
| 11 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 12 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 13 | If she had n't known her twin better , Dana 's mask of sophistication could have wounded her deeply , particularly when she persisted in being so sure that Roman would do exactly as she wished . |
| 14 | Up there she 's got no disrespect , somebody who 's not quite as bright as they might be er and she 's not working overtime as they would do here if they got behind , they 're working half eight to half four is it Ray ? |
| 15 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman would do better if he chose his targets with more precision . |
| 17 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 18 | For my part , I think Benedict would do better if she does not saddle him with it . ’ |
| 19 | They would do so because they receive convergent input from cells at the lower levels of the system that represent the defining properties of that object . |
| 20 | Unfortunately he had n't repeated that success and Inspector he had remained , and would do so until he left the force . |
| 21 | I do n't suppose it would matter much if I fell in anyhow , cos I can nearly swim . |
| 22 | The RCM tried hard to play down the issue , arguing that all those working for refugees would achieve most if they cooperated . |
| 23 | Enough to curve it right back on itself so an astronaut going in a straight line would land back where he started ? ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 25 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 26 | At times he would brood gloomily as he thought of the future course of the Reformation . |
| 27 | She would look for their gloves , would ring back if she found them . |
| 28 | Beth was convinced that Matthew would run away if she took him from this house , then what would become of him ? |
| 29 | And he would run off before he said any more . |
| 30 | But it may be additional in the same way as the government argues EEC money to the North is — that is , they argue that they plan their spending in the expectation that they will get the EEC money and would plan differently if they did not expect to get it . |