Example sentences of "[conj] would [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That leaves us then with or would leave us with a substantial provision in Greater York .
2 The second argues more generally that since we have made mistakes , or would make them in imaginary similar circumstances , we do not know now .
3 The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances .
4 ‘ If only they had n't scrapped the old grammar school , ’ muttered Dr Frome , and Pumfrey saw that he was beginning to erect in his mind a structure of excuses and evasions that would justify him to himself .
5 Yes , to give him the chance to find the right one , the one that would stir him in such a way that he felt he could n't do without her .
6 Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital .
7 Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself .
8 Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom .
9 By virtue of Core Rule 36 , many transactions which would fall full square within Core Rule 28 are exempted because the Chinese Wall serves to negative the firm , or certain individuals within the firm , of the requisite knowledge that would bring it within the prohibition contained in Core Rule 28 .
10 It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point .
11 She felt that her heart would burst with the ache of love , and searched in her mind for words that would bind him to her and bring him back .
12 What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ?
13 Isabel had scarcely felt the fiery rush of blood to her cheeks , the quick involuntary swelling of her flesh , before fitzAlan wrenched his hand away , transferring the reins from the other as if that was the only thing that would prevent him from touching her again .
14 For if the student can retrieve an item by dialling a number , he still has to discover what number , and to conceptualize how he might arrive at the correct answer that would give it to him .
15 Like other writers at the turn of the century , Geddes and Thompson stressed the importance of women receiving an education that would fit them for motherhood , and of their choosing eugenically sound mates in order to ‘ beget supermen , of either sex , of course ’ .
16 The first of these , initially expressed in the letter from Lord Selborne , Minister for Economic Warfare , to the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , on 21 July 1944 , after the Cabinet decision on 17 July 1944 to hand back captured Russians if Soviet authorities requested [ KP 1 ] was the fear of many Russians of the fate that would await them on their return to the Soviet Union [ KP 2 ] .
17 I had to construct a model that would lead me to a series of questions that would have empirically testable answers which would allow me to deduce an answer to my original question .
18 ‘ I hoped you might tell me something that would lead me to Heather . ’
19 If she ever believed that of him , she would weaken , give in to the powerful attraction , and then she would have to admit there were emotions behind that attraction , emotions that would lead her into heartbreak .
20 As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all .
21 The surface was badly pockmarked and the car bumped and bounced over the uneven thoroughfare , its journey only becoming smoother as they reached the main road that would lead them into Chichester itself .
22 They moved from cover to cover within the compound , advancing towards the rear of the battle , following the sounds that would lead them to their own side and to news of the day 's progress .
23 Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith .
24 Prime Computer Inc said it is continuing to weigh various capitalisation schemes , ‘ including capital market transactions ’ but would not confirm a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is in the midst of talks that would lead it to going public again , Reuter reports from Boston .
25 I think our survey showed it could be as high as fifty per hectare in fact , er but we did n't have a full response to the survey and er there 's nothing er in the results that would lead us to a conclusion that it should be lower or higher , so we 're quite happy to accept that assumption .
26 She had just stood there , scarcely able to breathe , and aware that only a hair 's breadth of control separated her from a fury that would shake her to her soul .
27 Tears burst from his eyes when we were leaving South American soil and stepping aboard the cargo ship that would deliver us in Panama .
28 Concentrations of PCBs in whales and dolphins have been found to be between five and 20 times the level that would classify them as toxic waste in the US .
29 Young Lisa Hammond 's survival depended on an operation that would leave her in pain and unable to move for six months .
30 This autumn the House of Lords will be asked to give people a legal right to choose between life and death in advance of any injury or illness that would leave them in a ‘ permanent vegetative state ’ .
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