Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door opened unexpectedly , and he would have fallen into the dark kitchen were it not for the fact that after four inches it jarred and stuck . |
| 2 | Yes my Lord er as soon as we went to the main bedroom which was the back bedroom at the same time as as that bedroom door opened , so the second team consisting of er P C P C would have gone into the second smaller bedroom and at the same time as we went in er P C and P C job er was to cover our backs in case of anybody in er the kitchen or the living area , the living room area . |
| 3 | On the other hand , Clara would have fitted into the Jaguar-driving clique . |
| 4 | I had the feeling of a patron drawn deeper than he would have liked into the unpredictable consequences of his generosity — a lonely figure , heir to the Agnew fortune and tradition , yet unmarried , childless , last of his line . |
| 5 | In six months her winnings , which had saved the firm , would have degenerated into a mere loan . |
| 6 | ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise . |
| 7 | At best it seems , a national strike would have developed into a bitter war of attrition which the unions , with their meagre resources , could only have lost . |
| 8 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | These different possible early states would have evolved into a whole family of different histories for the universe . |