Example sentences of "[conj] would [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he would & would advise them strongly to support me . |
| 2 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 3 | And farther down the loch had waited the frigate that would escort it out to sea and stay with it , someone had told her , until it reached the safety of deep water . |
| 4 | Kim 's mother took this idea further by making some of the activities given to Kim those that would involve her helpfully with the baby . |
| 5 | He dared not move , for fear of starting a slide of loose stones that would carry him down and irresistibly over the edge of the quarry . |
| 6 | But of all Koresh 's dubious activities it was gun dealing that would bring him in to conflict with authority . |
| 7 | Thousands of Montenegrins , many in national costume , waited at the quayside in Bar for the Italian warship that would bring him home . |
| 8 | ’ If that 's not a summary of failed inspiration , failed compassion , and the failed dream that would bring us together , then the Levellers are the next Sex Pistols . |
| 9 | A look that claimed her for his own and spoke of a love that would bind them together for always . |
| 10 | Some people will actually say , if I could add something to the plan that would cost you just a little bit more , which means that if you 're off work through illness , the company , Abbey will pay the premiums for you , would you be prepared to pay a bit more . |
| 11 | ‘ None of us could find anything that would shift it however much elbow grease we used . |
| 12 | The clamour of her heartbeat filled the silence between them , as she struggled to find the words that would send him away forever . |
| 13 | Those previous kisses had had meaning after all , and now he had only to utter those three little words that would send her up into the clouds . |
| 14 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 15 | Britain 's two banned weightlifters were waiting for phone calls that would send them back to Barcelona . |
| 16 | There 's a couple in there that would prefer it faster . |
| 17 | And I said to Norman have you got anything in here that would cover it up ? |
| 18 | However , the success of the Inuit is based far more on dressing , housing and feeding themselves as well as possible , and avoiding risks that would expose them unduly to cold . |
| 19 | After what that evil bastard did to me , you could n't possibly tell me anything about him that would make me more frightened of him than I already am . ’ |
| 20 | Ecology was a parallel move designed not to transcend field studies , but to transform them in a way that would make them genuinely scientific . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge can not argue simply that nuclear power is cleaner and environmentally more safe and that it should therefore always take precedence over coal , because we can do things to coal that would make it environmentally far more acceptable . |
| 22 | Erm whether we want to add something on to the agenda that would make it more acceptable to them like health and safety or whatever . |
| 23 | Erm , some coloration that would make it still ours . |
| 24 | I knew your ways , that streak of obstinacy that would make you always run counter , even as an infant . |
| 25 | For his own good she frequently reminded him of the horrors and deprivations that would befall him there . |
| 26 | Negotiating a few cairns , falling into a stream or two , arid avoiding the tempting green sheep-track to the left that would lead you straight into a bog , you followed the pilgrims ' way ever downwards . |
| 27 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 28 | Jack Russells are difficult animals to teach to retrieve — I have only had one that would do it properly — but they can be taught to work nets , drive rabbits into nets and to be thoroughly disciplined in all they do . |
| 29 | ah , I 've put you a three eight , wide eight thick piece of steel lay it on the top that would hold it down in the middle |
| 30 | His appeal to the concept of a super-organism allowed him to present ecology as a science that would show us how to manage the natural productivity of an entire region . |