Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her legs trembled so they would hardly carry her . |
| 2 | Walking alone I would never have made it . |
| 3 | For example , if at P the parcel had no motion in the east-west direction across the planet 's surface and the planet 's axial rotation is prograde then it will pick up motion across the grid towards the east , and in moving northwards will end up for example at Q. If it were in the southern hemisphere and moved southward it would also pick up an eastwards movement . |
| 4 | I mean there 's a lot of voluntary organisations who are working in this field , I do n't know how you would just make sure you got them all . |
| 5 | I do n't know why it would suddenly start losing pressure . |
| 6 | Yet he feared they were like biting fish in a fine mesh net , if they swam forward they would never escape ; he saw them lifting their limbs with automatic motion , as crayfish with their lumbering claws knock against the basketwork of the pens in which they have been trapped . |
| 7 | Whenever we arranged to meet anywhere he would invariably let me down and his excuse was invariable too : ‘ I was taking shots for Surfing . ’ |
| 8 | so it would n't be that they interruptions listening necessarily it would just be that would n't expect to have to . |
| 9 | Once I had the basic colours put in I would then sometimes , for added intensity , dip the point of a certain colour into the water and apply it direct for a small intense spot of pigment . |
| 10 | The idealised version , by contrast , is peppered with sentences of Orientation which break up what would otherwise be almost continous Complicating Action . |
| 11 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
| 12 | This was supposed to be a ‘ sensitive ’ job and if I came out I would automatically be adjudged a danger to the patients and given the elbow . |
| 13 | So by the time you came here it would mostly just be Tommy that was playing ? |
| 14 | If a list of modern poets suitable for children under 16 was prepared today it would probably include the popular animal and bird poems of Ted Hughes . |
| 15 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 16 | If culture were transmitted genetically it would scarcely be necessary to expend such time and energy training children : it would be so much easier ! |
| 17 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 18 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 19 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 20 | Even if Lindsey 's not going out I would rather go out . |
| 21 | And if he did n't do that she could n't possibly see how they would ever see eye to eye . |
| 22 | ‘ But I do n't see how anything would ever get done . |
| 23 | Short of actually achieving this , it is hard to imagine how we would then perceive social relations , and what sort of responses would seem appropriate to the actions of others . |
| 24 | If they appeared likely to do so he would then map out a strategy and advise students or co-workers on how to refine them and carry them through to fulfilment . |
| 25 | Before proceeding further it would perhaps be as well to dispel one or two myths . |
| 26 | Oh yes , if everybody would have stayed out they would never had a scrap of slate made there , everybody would have stayed out and stayed out till the end , and not a scrap of slate would have been made there . |
| 27 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 28 | Trying to find her way back out was obviously a nonstarter but staying here she would probably be spotted fairly quickly . |
| 29 | Remember how you would gladly have given your life to have saved his or hers ? |
| 30 | A voluntary mental patient may , if able to do so without assistance needed by reason of mental illness , made a declaration stating where he would otherwise be residing , or has resided , and be registered there . |