Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who tried to set up in between us would find it hard going . |
| 2 | The B film was a Western starring Randolph Scott , and when that was over he would watch Jane Russell again , and somewhere in between he would eat his boiled egg and perhaps sleep for a while . |
| 3 | P.B. All of this , which would go I think contrary … much of it would go contrary to the basic Catholic belief . |
| 4 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 5 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 6 | Perhaps the time spent away from him would help her regain some control over the wild emotions roiling inside her . |
| 7 | It was clear , too , that Kanhai , who had taken over the leadership from Sobers , was coming to the end of his career and that whoever took over from him would have the opportunity for an extended run in the job if he were successful . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But as we 're completely in the dark about what sort of intelligence service — if any — we 're up against it would do no harm to take precautions . |
| 10 | And they say if any jobs come up at you would need it there . |
| 11 | Changing out of them would risk destroying the brand image they 've developed over 20 years . |
| 12 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |
| 13 | So I would ask nicely that I have petty cash of say thirty pounds , which out of I would buy , or pay the cleaners ' wages , and any minor expenses that come my way . |
| 14 | This meant that they would n't be back before the pubs closed , but I also knew that if they knew who I was going out with they would have locked me in . |
| 15 | Beyond this point he would observe something very strange : the area of the spherical surface would decrease , until when he had travelled twice as far to he would find that it had shrunk to nothing . |
| 16 | If the pinches of flake were thrown over any other bream 's head then that fish would veer to one side , but only the bream immediately alongside him would react , and then only to get out of the way . |
| 17 | Those who spoke ill of him would find it difficult to continue such activity without a jaw to move , he considered , and made a mental note to put one of the Secte Rouge in charge of security . |
| 18 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |