Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pers pn] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 2 | He said he was in contact with the Chief Constable of Warrington who told him that the Ball family would welcome him at the funeral , but only as a private individual . |
| 3 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 4 | No doubt he would see her at the vicarage . |
| 5 | When Inner City were taking off , people would phone me at the store and ask for Paris . |
| 6 | Both states were regarded as not only undesirable but criminal : after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 , police prosecutions against homosexuals reached a peak in 1953/4 , while the scare headlines accorded by the press to the Clapham Common murder in the summer of 1953 lodged in the public 's heads the equation that people who wore Edwardian clothes would knife you at the drop of a hat . |
| 7 | He was pessimistic about Britain 's economic prospects and felt that a free-trade policy would leave her at the mercy of economic storms like that of 1931 . |
| 8 | Mr John Prescott , the Labour transport spokesman , said BR would lose £3.5 billion of public support by 1993 , which would leave it at the bottom of the international league for support and top for fares . |
| 9 | The key job , currently held by Michael Heseltine , would put him at the forefront of the drive to get the country back on course . |
| 10 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |
| 11 | Neal ( loc. cit. ) however , attributes to the mosaic " Corinian " affinities — notably , beige coloured background tesserae , as used at Woodchester — and , presumably , would place it at the border of the first and second quarters of the fourth century . |