Example sentences of "[noun pl] [unc] [noun] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 2 | Mr Chairman I would like to move the resolution in standing in the Conservatives ' name I would say that I would hope that erm the other side would er join with us in voting that through and certainly have no problem with the relevant resolution that Mr put forward . |
| 3 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 4 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 5 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 6 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 7 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 8 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 9 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 10 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 11 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
| 12 | One of the greatest players ever to put on a Spurs ' jersey I would think . |
| 13 | In their friends ' eyes it would have been unreasonably proprietorial of him not to have released her with a minimum of fuss . |
| 14 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 15 | It was an almost perfect system , for it implied that if Israel wished to dismantle the women 's committees it would have to imprison the entire membership . |
| 16 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |