Example sentences of "would [vb infin] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 2 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Portes suggests that UN agencies , using a more restricted definition of informal proletariat , would equate it with the poorest 40 per cent . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 9 | Melts that had frozen within this subconscious lithosphere would enrich it in the same elements that are enriched in the crust , so it has not been possible to distinguish between these theories . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They would sell it at the best price they could get for it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | go to the supermarket and I would bung it of the best of stuff . |
| 18 | Nor was there any reason to believe they would get it over the next thirty years , either . |