Example sentences of "[noun] would [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Like the meeting in London just after the death of Edmund Ironside , it hints at a realisation on Cnut 's part that his rule would to a degree depend on English support .
2 But what we have to bear in mind of course er the f financial propriety of this council would in a sense have been very easy over the years if the labour party previously had trimmed its budget according to what we could all afford .
3 I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things .
4 The Gospels , indeed the whole of the Bible , are sketchy documents , which no responsible scholar would for a moment consider absolutely reliable as historical testimony .
5 At times Levitation attempt to musically shock but it rarely works , ‘ Squirrel ’ has a weird keyboard break which fits in as much as George Bush would at a peace benefit punk gig , but at least they try to bemuse .
6 As this is an item which people would to a household refuse , waste site already , the problem of generating does not apply to this waste either .
7 He would pick his way delicately , almost mincing , along the trail between the giant pine cones , planting his two-toed feet as delicately as the Queen Mother would in a field of cow pats .
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