Example sentences of "[pron] and would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analytical cards are interfiled with the main cards , and constitute another 80 — 100,000 entries , which are all unique to ourselves and would require manual keyboarding by professional staff . |
| 2 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 3 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 4 | I hope that the BBC will make more effort in the future to bring more coverage of major tennis events , for example Grand Slams like the French Open , on the scale of coverage they had for Wimbledon because I am sure that there are many people who are in the same situation as me and would like more tennis on TV . |
| 5 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 6 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 7 | I did not like the prospect of playing in front of all these people who were all older than me and would see my violin playing from a critical view , but I had come this far , and it would be stupid not to go through with the audition . |
| 8 | My mother had said to Lili one day that she thought I was marrying Syl because he was so much older than me and would take the place of my father . |
| 9 | On Friday nights , I 'd stay out till Saturday and my friends envied me and would say , ‘ I wish my mother was more like yours , ’ and I 'd think , ‘ I wish mine was more like yours . ’ |
| 10 | People like Nick ( Kent ) and Charlie ( Murray ) were fraternal towards me and would say , ‘ Listen Tony , people like Johnny Thunders are a real f—-up . |
| 11 | For those members who have already submitted their views , we would like to thank them and would welcome any additional comments they may have . |
| 12 | He said ‘ you would thing that people were used to elephants , but they love them and would come out and be blessed by her . |
| 13 | Mr Dunn said the firm hoped to create more jobs in the not too distant future , while Roddy Ross of Tecnomarine said the partnership between the two engineering firms represented a strengthening of relations between them and would work to mutual advantage . |
| 14 | In this way , thought Chapman , the Southern League , in its new guise , would provide greater competition within itself and would have greater command over its members ' loyalty by providing automatic access for successful clubs to the League . |
| 15 | Spend the immediate post-Smiths period saying how he was the talented one and would go on to great things . |
| 16 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 17 | A conference in Woods Hole , Massachusetts , reacting to reports of large-scale dumping of highly radioactive waste by the Soviet Union over the past 40 years [ see ED70 ] , concluded that " any potential problem would be a local one and would pose no threat on a global scale . " |
| 18 | Whenever we asked for reassurance , Mr Smith assured us that his tribal chiefs were loyal to him and would vote for whatever agreement he advised them to . |
| 19 | In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release . |
| 20 | They all fancied him and would think his wife must be a monster . |
| 21 | I do love him and would value some helpful instruction . ’ |
| 22 | And the King went out from Burgos and came nigh unto Bivar ; and the Cid came up to him and would have kissed his hand , but the King withheld it , and said angrily unto him , Ruydiez , quit my land . |
| 23 | Nenna admired him and would have liked to throw her arms round him . |
| 24 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 25 | He would be forced to eat what was placed before him because pigs ' trotters were good for him and would help him to grow . |
| 26 | The other children were very kind to him and would help to cope with him when necessary . |
| 27 | They just wanted to break him and would use any means available . |
| 28 | If he did , the police would know where to look for him and would catch him . |
| 29 | Well — what if there were , they had had a lot of him and would find through loss , perhaps , all sorts of qualities in themselves and others they would otherwise have missed . |
| 30 | The O'Hooligan character , with his outsized nose , was so popular that iron casts used be made of him and would turn up occasionally as Belfast doorstops . |