Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of them would gain at least £10 a week and another quarter at least £20 a week . |
| 2 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 3 | Preparatory men in because if you took a body of men into a bakery half of them would be standing looking about doing nothing until something was prepared . |
| 4 | As half of them would |
| 5 | It was highly likely that only half of us would complete the training , he said , and that many of us would try to desert . |
| 6 | Each of the Six Clerks in Chancery was reputedly worth £3,000 annually ; while this sum was certainly exaggerated , even half of it would have been a substantial amount . |
| 7 | Smeed went on to argue that if drivers were charged for the delays they impose on one another , some of them would travel at different times , by different means or to different places — and that time wasted by everyone in jams would be reduced . |
| 8 | Excluded , naturally , from the better parties , some of them would attempt to get on terms with their social superiors by bursting in with a search warrant in one hand and evidence in another , which they would produce from nowhere like cabaret artists plucking doves out of the air . |
| 9 | Some of them would indeed be radical . |
| 10 | I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry . |
| 11 | Sometimes , some of them would try and be clever and just step off the pavement . |
| 12 | It was an awe-inspiring sight to stand in the dusk outside the office , watching and listening to the boys going out on what we all knew would be a hazardous and dangerous mission , from which at least some of them would not return . |
| 13 | Some of them would be put over hurdles next season , perhaps one might be sold to Barbados or Abu Dhabi in the forlorn hope that they could win something there , but most of them were racing in the shadow of the knacker 's yard . |
| 14 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 15 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 16 | Right okay so that 's why it 's important that we get I mean if we just got one neutron out then theoretically you could sustain a chain reaction , but in practice it would be absorbed , it would n't they would n't all hit , some of them would miss , but as long as we can get on average about one , of those three , hitting another one , we can keep it going , and we get this chain reaction going and th the heat really builds up then , and that 's what they use in a a nuclear reaction reactor . |
| 17 | Some of them would make their way to the railway station , but a few , having no horse and trap and unable to afford even the train fare , would travel on foot the whole week , often sleeping rough in the fields or in barns or farmhouses . |
| 18 | They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be . |
| 19 | The people who took it round tended to assume that in a house of four storeys there must be two families : some of them would leave four copies . |
| 20 | Oh they were they were er crisscrosses and er and r and some of them would be rounded . |
| 21 | Tapes and yards of lace and and er sometimes some of them would have even pieces of cloth for an apron , if you know what an apron is . |
| 22 | My wife kept an open door for them and any time Well at the weekend they 'd Some of them would drop in , you know , for a chat , aye . |
| 23 | Some of them would suckle forever if they could . ’ |
| 24 | Some of them would be outraged We certainly know that one of them was convinced by Jesus , Joseph of Arimathea was a member of the Sanhedrin and you know that , that later on we 're told of Joseph of Arimathea , but what did he do Michael do you know , does anybody know what Joseph of Arimathea did ? |
| 25 | They usually some of them would just order it through the vil the merchants , through the shops here . |
| 26 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 27 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 28 | Later , some of it would be loaded up again and taken north to trade for salt . |
| 29 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
| 30 | The luggage made a sort of mountain in the barrow , and some of it would have to be lashed to the sides with ropes . |