Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 32 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
| 33 | Twice more , on 24 February and 21 March 1943 , Hitler repeated his threat that the war would bring about the extermination of Jewry , and came back to it again in one final reference — which produced ‘ lively applause ’ — during an address to generals and officers at Berchtesgaden on 26 May 1944 . |
| 34 | FoE calculated that replacing old , worn-out fridges and freezers with energy efficient models over the next 15 years would wipe out the need for 1.8GW of electricity . |
| 35 | She had smiled on the new young courtier , and she had helped him , and he had been fascinated by her , for although she was ageing , there were still easily discernible traces of the famous beauty who had led armies into battle and lovers into bed ; who had brought Ireland to the brink of something so truly great that its fame would echo down the centuries . |
| 36 | And although I was fairly certain she had nothing to do with the shooting , if the police started asking questions her husband would find out the whole story anyway . |
| 37 | However , both parties agreed to form a transitional government and agreed that the Czech and Slovak regional parliaments would work out the future constitutional set-up by Sept. 30 , 1992 . |
| 38 | ‘ He knew your name would bring in the customers and … ’ |
| 39 | During these pauses he would leer in the hope that his lady friend would fill in the gaps , thereby allowing him to save his energy for later . |
| 40 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 41 | One or two pigments did stain the fibres somewhat , but they still held their translucence , and I suppose that a wash in warm soapy water would bring back the whiteness . |
| 42 | A mechanical device could , of course , operate in water even if it was totally submerged , but operating in water would dampen out the sound almost completely . |
| 43 | Two people would share the role of secretary ; two more with a head for figures would take on the work of treasurer , an area which would necessarily assume vital importance with the huge legal costs that would have to be faced . |
| 44 | In my view a late-night show pairing Jameson and Clary would wipe out the entire listenership of Radios 1 , 3 , 4 and 5 , not to mention all commercial stations . |
| 45 | Erm , Mr mentioned about erm , the new provisions would cut down the paperwork , work and put more policemen on , police on the beat . |
| 46 | NSA would pick up the call with their satellites ; the British GCHQ would get it ; so would the Russians … |
| 47 | Apart from codifying the rights of the individual , a Bill of Rights would iron out the curious anomaly to which Lord Taylor referred and might in addition save time and money because far fewer decisions by British judges would need to go to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 48 | The stories of the Last Days , when the Summoner would open up the Dark Reaches of the Spirit Lands and call down the worst of the manitous to lay waste the worlds of the white man and the red . |
| 49 | When an agreement was drawn up in 1922 between the Vatican and the Soviet government for a Catholic famine relief mission , some Orthodox leaders in Western Russia declared that the Communists hoped that Catholic propaganda would bring about the downfall of the whole Orthodox Church . |
| 50 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 51 | But what would happen , probably , was that his spirit wife would take over the computer , just as she took over almost everything . |
| 52 | Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now . |
| 53 | Speaking the day after a meeting of the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) , Babangida said that caretaker committees would take over the adminstration of the two parties and would , in conjunction with the National Electoral Commission ( NEC ) , draw up new guidelines for the selection of party executives at local , state and national level . |
| 54 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 55 | After winning the AAA multi-events championship at the Don Valley Stadium two weeks previously , the Border Harrier had hoped that a short rest would clear up the trouble . |
| 56 | But farmers operating under a quota regime question the economic sense of introducing BST and are concerned that its use would send out the wrong signals to consumers . |
| 57 | But farmers operating under a quota regime question the economic sense of introducing BST and are concerned that its use would send out the wrong signals to consumers . |
| 58 | In almost the first 12 months the locomotive is back together again in one piece although some parts had been re-engineered and considerably altered so that the whole locomotive would take on the appearance of its British counterparts . |
| 59 | and the boy would next morning would pass on the outside of the gate offering a reward of five pounds to anyone who would in other words five pounds for Oliver Twist I never in for this in my life said the in the white , white coat as he locked the gate and he went to the next morning . |
| 60 | The woman would pull up the sheet to her neck . |