Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahead I could see the Bomb Circle , where I would stop or turn . |
| 2 | And what more , what more should we expect from a Party that is led nationally by a man who , in 1983 , says , there are no circumstances in which I would order or permit the firing of a nuclear weapon , which leads somebody to say , Kinnock 's lust for power is so great that he 's prepared to ditch any principle to get it . |
| 3 | I would plead or cry or run away . |
| 4 | She leaned for support against the wing of the car , breathless and trembling , wondering if she would scream or vomit . |
| 5 | If the present set of essays exhibits independence of mind , this is no less than she would wish or expect . |
| 6 | The child was observed through a one-way screen to see whether he or she would resist or give in to temptation ( i.e. pick up the more attractive , but forbidden , toy ) . |
| 7 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 8 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 9 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 10 | She 'd inwardly fumed when he told her drug users were habitual liars , that they 'd say or do anything to get what they wanted . |
| 11 | This enabled all attempts at inquiry into the FBI to be squashed , on the ground that they would inhibit or endanger the vital operations of the bureau . |
| 12 | I had instantly buried the intense feelings hoping that with time they would decompose or reform and grow into normal healthy heterosexual longings . |
| 13 | Like Henry James , she found the tiny ‘ germ ’ in a happening , and then had to create people to bring it about ; unlike Turgenev , who began with creating people , and then watched and listened for what they would do or say . |
| 14 | Signs , know your traffic signs , right , signals , give signal , give signals if they would help or warn other road users watch out for the signals of other drivers and motor cyclists or pedal cyclists and take necessary action from them . |
| 15 | ( They say ) … and as he 'd rise or fall , |
| 16 | For example , if he learnt that the patient was a Jehovah 's Witness , but had no evidence of a refusal to accept blood transfusions , he would avoid or postpone any blood transfusion so long as possible . |
| 17 | She did n't know what to do or say and wished he would do or say something to break the silence . |
| 18 | On extended expeditions there were occasions when he would break or lose even his spares , and I would find myself combing deserted beaches and jungle tracks looking for a small circle of glass on which , I was acutely aware , rested the success or failure of an entire project . |
| 19 | He would stand or fall by his policies and , to prove it , he gave one year 's notice of his resignation . |
| 20 | The former research scientist , who has resigned his seat on Middesbrough Council , said he would stand or fall by his record over the last few months . |
| 21 | He would sit or kneel until his body ached , picking and stroking in his efforts to please her . |
| 22 | Even their kisses might give him a disease from which he would die or become horribly spotty . |
| 23 | As he was rushed to hospital , his devastated daughter Suzanne went ahead with the service — not knowing if he would live or die . |
| 24 | It ; s written as he would write or speak . |
| 25 | I felt if I gripped it too hard it would break or crumple , and I would see the sinews like wires holding it together . |
| 26 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 27 | You will also need , in this type of essay , to signal that you are aware of the dangers of reductionism : that is , of simplifying the work of a school or movement until it no longer adequately represents what anyone associated with it would recognise or subscribe to . |