Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebirth for him would be fatal , in the word of a later poem ‘ like Death , our death ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Maureen Howie , head teacher of La Retraite School , in Lambeth , south London , said : ‘ The real disappointment for us would be that such a move would be made without looking very carefully at what grant maintained schools have achieved , and at what the pilot movement has done for children . ’ |
| 3 | Golda Meir replied that ‘ if he was ready and willing to confront us and the world with a fait accompli [ i.e. annexation of Arab Palestine ] — the traditional friendship between us would continue and we would certainly find a common language in arranging matters of interest to both sides . ’ |
| 4 | No , would n't be alright running a car for her would we ? |
| 5 | Neville Whittaker , the ebullient chief executive of the North East Civic Trust , says the region has so many bad buildings a great deal of it would not be left standing if he could invoke the Heseltine solution . |
| 6 | Should God create another Eve and I another rib of , yet loss of thee would never from my heart . |
| 7 | The reason why I did n't get much of a word in edgeways was because my lady chairman on the other side of her would n't let kept attracting her attention , so I erm there is to a lot extent a false image . |
| 8 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 9 | This leaves the possibility of a splendid house being found in the east courtyard , where the museum and custodian 's house now stand ; but had any substantial remains survived , traces of them would surely have been found when those buildings were erected . |
| 10 | She began inching towards him , hugging the face of the cliff , praying that the rock beneath her would hold . |
| 11 | The conventions are so rigorous that any break with them would require a new genre ; the editorial leaflet makes this clear enough : |
| 12 | Whatever they could stick their noses into they would , like telling you off if you had more than eight photos on your pin board . |
| 13 | Subscribers who were in arrears were notified that no recommendation from them would be accepted . |
| 14 | The remaining turnover from them would be pure profit . |
| 15 | Although we would not be able to see them because the light from them would not reach us , we would still feel their gravitational attraction . |
| 16 | Daily Telegraph If you did not put aluminium in you would have water that was cloudy . |
| 17 | A new entrance to it would be created by way of a trench passageway . |
| 18 | This well known fact was somehow never discussed in public by the girls , for public admission of it would have destroyed and inhibited its oddly private thrill , and would have shamed the vain ones into cowering in their cubicles , as the timid and modest already did . |
| 19 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 20 | Part of me would love to be in a relationship , but I 'm cautious about getting involved , even though I desperately want to be loved . |
| 21 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 22 | It was against all he believed in and yet some inner part of him would stop at nothing to attract Jeopardy 's notice . |
| 23 | ‘ Part of him would be very pleased that you were laughing at him . |
| 24 | It seemed as though she liked to keep those she loved to herself , as if by sharing , some part of them would be lost to her forever . |
| 25 | An agreement between two or more competing manufacturers whose combined market share exceeds 20 per cent of the market for the appropriate products in the EC or a substantial part of it would not however be exempted under the 1985 block exemption ( though it might benefit from an individual exemption ) . |
| 26 | Mr Cheney refused to pay his income tax on the ground that part of it would be used to build nuclear weapons for use in circumstances which would be in breach of the Geneva Convention Act 1957 , and that this illegal purpose rendered his tax demand invalid . |
| 27 | Without deciding the point , it seems to me arguable that , on the taxpayer 's argument , such loss or part of it would be an expense incurred by the school in providing the concessionary places . |
| 28 | I could go er that would n't be a bad idea , because part of it would make sense to finish . |
| 29 | If he had been asked where he got it , that obstinate jaw of his would have remained clenched , but Isambard knew how to ask his questions now . |
| 30 | A preliminary assessment suggests that perhaps three quarters of these specimen clauses would be caught , but that the remainder of them would need specific implementation . |