Example sentences of "[noun] would [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He said it was inevitable , that bad blood would always surface in the next generation , and that the only way he could hope to save me was to chase the devil from my soul before he got a proper hold . ’ |
| 2 | For example , the experience of members of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , who in both their own estimation and that of observers were adjudged respectable married women , shows that family misfortune , particularly in the form of sickness and unemployment , could quickly plunge a family into poverty , whereupon the wife would probably resort to strategies similar to those of her poorer sister . |
| 3 | In order to secure the payment of tribute , servicemen would often resort to taking hostages ( amanaty ) . |
| 4 | Control had told him often enough that the agency would never surface in his defence if anything went wrong . |
| 5 | He went on to state that the Party would definitely affiliate to the Labour Party if accepted as a " revolutionary organisation " . |