Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But fever , at least , was an opponent she could fight , and action would stop her from thinking . |
| 2 | This course of action would expose them to the prospect of mounting fines and eventual seizure of assets . |
| 3 | We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice . |
| 4 | You 've brought messages that the German High Command would shoot you for . |
| 5 | That had been some encounter ! she admitted as , regaining the sanctuary of the street , she drew in a deep breath of refreshing air before turning into the road which she remembered from her map-reading would lead her into a series of narrow streets closed to traffic , and known familiarly to the local inhabitants as Strøget . |
| 6 | This means that , in translation , grammar often has the effect of a straitjacket , forcing the translator along a certain course which may or may not follow that of the source text as closely as the translator would like it to . |
| 7 | Acceptance of our City Challenge bid would enable us to wrought that miracle far more quickly . ’ |
| 8 | The car would do it for a minute or two . |
| 9 | If they were subsequently found to have an affected son , the apparent failure of the programme would bring it into unjustified disrepute . |
| 10 | Not even Jane 's tender digestion would keep her from tonight 's dancing , and nor did she have any real fear of meeting her husband , for Jane well knew Sharpe 's reluctance to dance or to dress up in a frippery uniform , but the possibility of his presence was an alarming thought that she could not resist exploring . |
| 11 | At the churchyard stile the priest would meet him in ‘ reverential pomp ’ and conduct him into the Church to attend divine service . |
| 12 | Gyggle would store me in a spare room of the hospital and keep me under twenty-four-hour observation while I was unconscious . |
| 13 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |
| 14 | Something about the back of a man 's neck would remind me of him . |
| 15 | They did not want it to be too obvious , since observing the search would provide them with great amusement . |
| 16 | The thought of a day , let alone months , spent on board a narrow boat would fill her with horror . |
| 17 | I almost wondered if she was afraid that daylight would turn her into dust . |
| 18 | The results so far suggest that those informants who described themselves as infrequent and inexperienced readers of SF would not regard this as SF at all ; whereas those informants who did read SF would characterise it as such . |
| 19 | When he was ready , the wind would take him off the beach . |
| 20 | She would run around her pen at such speed that the centrifugal force would keep her on the vertical walls like a Wall of Death rider . |
| 21 | Once I tied a wasp to the striking-surface of each of the copper-coloured bells on the top , where the little hammer would hit them in the morning when the alarm went off . |
| 22 | However , winter would transform it into something perilous in the extreme , even with crampons and an axe , and I 'd give it a miss during that season unless you 're an experienced mountaineer . |
| 23 | Until the review was completed , a civilian advisory committee would assist him in controlling existing secret projects and would decide which should continue . |
| 24 | Their everyday work would bring them into touch with a wide range of people — parents , grandparents , professionals working in other disciplines , voluntary agencies . |
| 25 | I would also add to that that I think such work would help us in terms of targeting more effectively the existing resources we have in terms of service delivery . |
| 26 | He was convinced Jeopardy would hate him for ever , change his mind about the performance , change his mind about his prowess . |
| 27 | It might seem that a simple complement of the analysis offered above for acquired equivalence would supply us with a mechanism for acquired distinctiveness . |
| 28 | Ramsay was less than delighted with the task , but consoled himself with the thought that at least the journey south would take them by Dunbar Castle again , and a call thereat would be possible . |
| 29 | As any Tory would tell you until Black Wednesday , his personality and his popularity won the election . |
| 30 | The idea was that an expert would question me in order to construct a few more of those small islands in the middle of Clements 's ocean of forgetfulness . |