Example sentences of "[noun sg] they would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your speed they would say was in excess of 600 miles per hour , 611 to be precise ! |
| 2 | On the other side they would lay out a little town , using the river as a division . |
| 3 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |
| 4 | As a result they would accord the lower orders some respect and the arrogance which high status tends to encourage would be tempered with a degree of humility . |
| 5 | I personally do n't like to eat them while I 'm drinking because I get too full , but if I put a plate of pie and peas down in the club they would go like lightning . ’ |
| 6 | In the new programme they would focus heavily on what determines productivity . |
| 7 | Once safely through the fire of this opposition they would move into a future that was free of the dead past , lovely as cowslips and silent like a miracle . |
| 8 | Oh that every member of the new church would be filled with boldness : that when in collision with opposition they would respond — not by hitting each other — but by clearly telling their neighbours and community about Jesus ! |
| 9 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 10 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 11 | Cod separated the pair for fear they would reproduce , and eventually forced them to do battle with each other . |
| 12 | On the streets , in meetings and in work , I began to dread women 's perceptiveness and intuition for fear they would penetrate my three-dimensional protection , silence , an accepted assumed heterosexuality and aloofness . |
| 13 | She appealed against the defendants being given bail for fear they would interfere with witnesses who could help police inquiries . |
| 14 | Yet Carrie dared not speak out for fear they would question her reasons , and she was not clear about them herself . |
| 15 | As these plateaus are more buoyant than normal oceanic crust they would tend to resist subduction and therefore be accreted to continents lying along plate margins . |
| 16 | And anybody here with the technical services department they would confirm that . |
| 17 | When people had drunk their tea they would pass the trays to the end of the row . |
| 18 | ‘ Even in the dark they would know that . ’ |
| 19 | But if you were arrested for murder they would have to be very careful not to blow their cover . |
| 20 | This would provide a gradient in the concentration of the chemical and if the cells could read the concentration they would know their position in the line , with respect to the boundary . |
| 21 | Anyone who has a German shepherd they would like to offer to the police is asked to telephone Sandon dog section on ( 0245 ) 223616 . |
| 22 | If the new ministers took no action they would feel , perhaps with justice , that they did not get the quality of co-operation they were entitled to enjoy from their most senior staff . |
| 23 | That was recommended to the employers , the employers said yes , that 's the action they would take , they put it to the trustees , the trustees agreed it and that was it . |
| 24 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |
| 25 | We have to trust the districts can trust the county the county can trust the districts and that in practice they would make this work at local plan level . |
| 26 | But the pittance they would pay him meantime might be no better than what the Professor offered , and at least the occupation of reading would be more satisfactory than dry law . |
| 27 | But for all this fine façade , in private the ambitions of the Mughal Emperors knew no moral limitations : without scruple they would murder their brothers , poison their sisters or starve their fathers . |
| 28 | It was he , Clasper , who dictated to management the size of the labour force they would require to produce a given number of products , regardless of any figure which management might arrive at by employing accurately measured work standards . |
| 29 | Once they had their lunch they would return to the seats and eat , when finished they were permitted to go outside to play . |
| 30 | The office staff and the surgeons used the list as a pool of work they would dip into — indeed a surgeon might deliberately choose a recent addition to the list over someone who had waited far longer on the grounds of greater urgency … |