Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I explained earlier , I nearly threw my oil pastels away in frustration , but I thought I would give them another try with a different approach . |
| 2 | I would kill them all first . |
| 3 | The APU collection of questions was searched for items which conformed individually and collectively to the following criteria : — nearly all the items would have success rates between 60 per cent and 95 per cent nationally ; — all the items would have low omission rates among the bottom 20 per cent band of attainers nationally ; that is , they would not deter this group of pupils , who would be willing to " have a go " at them ; — overall , the items should cover a reasonable variety of topics , including basic ideas such as fractions , decimals , graphs ; and , — as far as possible the items selected would have a high incidence of a distinctive error or errors which would give them some diagnostic value . |
| 4 | In 1962 Piero Pieri addressed a Parisian audience on how he saw military history ‘ spilling over ’ into other aspects and specialisms of history , creating chain reactions which would bind them all together . |
| 5 | And she 'd just had an idea , one which would get them all moving . |
| 6 | The Scots aimed at a federal system which would allow them some autonomy . |
| 7 | Big Flame was based on the Italian revolutionary group Lutte Continua ( the struggle goes on ) , which sought to combine the autonomist belief in a loose network of Right-On groups with a separate political party which would guide them all . |
| 8 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 9 | That was when she 'd wish them luck , as they roared over the village , and she would watch them all until they were silhouetted against the dying sun , small and graceful in an apricot sky . |
| 10 | The woman had a car at Ealing in which she would drive them all home after the last train was gone . |
| 11 | Eva said he could do what he liked ; she would support them both — on love , presumably . |
| 12 | She would be with us always , and I would n't have to say a word to her grandchildren because she would say them all . |
| 13 | We do n't go out to gather potatoes we go to hunt taters And the East Mainland do n't say that at all they would call them more tatties or taties |
| 14 | A strange circle — not all of one tribe or one nation , but ever-present , as though rubbing up against him would give them some strength . |
| 15 | Perhaps soon , he would meet them both and ask that one question that he longed to ask : Why ? |
| 16 | She was four years older than Jessie but he would treat them both alike . |
| 17 | He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood . |
| 18 | He would draw them both . |
| 19 | They were trying to wear him down , but they would fail ; he would find the Key , he would find the Way Out and escape from this joke , this awful solitary confinement for Heroes ; he would leave them all behind and take his rightful place in the greater reality again . |
| 20 | Well , he would make them all sit up and take notice . |
| 21 | Then she would go down to his cluttered little house in South Kensington with his hundreds of contacts ( for he was clever enough never to leave anything to chance ) and he would pronounce them all ‘ Absolutely Divine , ’ but at last succeed , with supreme anguish , in selecting one or two which were even more divine than the others . |
| 22 | He would of course estimate the supply prices of all these different factors of production of the cloth with reference to the amounts of each of them that would be wanted , and on the supposition that the conditions of supply would be normal ; and he would add them all together to find the supply price of the cloth . |
| 23 | Oh , before that she gave him strict injunctions to be sure to kill Horrible or he would destroy them all , which was duly done . |
| 24 | He would allow them half a day to consider this generous offer , otherwise the fullest attacks would continue . |
| 25 | At the end , the nobleman called them charlatans and beggars and told them that if they were his , he would have them all flogged and their noses cut off . |
| 26 | But leave him there alone and snared for as long as ten days , and yes , if he had by then any secrets left , he would confide them all in exchange for the air of the great court , and the music of the Office . |
| 27 | And next year 's student , or even next term 's , perhaps , depending on how quick you do it , your conversations , what you 're doing now , once they 're transcribed and put onto disk would be very interesting , because we 'll have a disk from our St Mary 's students , transcribed , because Steve promised he would get them all transcribed . |
| 28 | He would kill them all , like the true knight he was . |
| 29 | He would win them all , and by demonstrating his great prowess he would force the anonymous Moi princess to step forward and offer him her hand … |
| 30 | Constance was the only adult to whom she would dream of divulging Sam 's plot , since whether Constance approved or not , she would not be difficult about it : clearly , she did not approve , either because the act would be an invasion of property and privacy or because it would land them all in trouble . |