Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in 1987 , the picture surfaced in London , being peddled around to various dealers , none of whom would touch it . |
| 2 | Some of them would make their way to the railway station , but a few , having no horse and trap and unable to afford even the train fare , would travel on foot the whole week , often sleeping rough in the fields or in barns or farmhouses . |
| 3 | ‘ Any of them would make you a better wife than I could . |
| 4 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 5 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 6 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 7 | I am sure one of them would afford you the protection that you seek . |
| 8 | My father would rage and storm , not so much at my mother as to her , and against Helen and Pat in their absence , but in the end neither of them would say anything to either of my sisters . |
| 9 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 10 | Perhaps one of them would allow her to see more clearly : the ghost in the land , or the child that she had been , or the old dog , or the rooks in the tall trees , or the woman … |
| 11 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 12 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom has been spared so far , but while the majority of the population are religiously inactive in terms of church-going , most of them would call themselves Christians , and their spiritual beliefs have been formed by Christian teaching . |
| 14 | Reversing the polarity of both thrusters would bring the vessel to a rapid halt ; swapping the polarity of just one of them would let it turn on a sixpence . |
| 15 | ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’ |
| 16 | That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about . |
| 17 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 18 | His fear focused his whole concentration on the tiny circle of steel pressed against his flinching neck , and on the white-knuckled finger he could imagine curled round the little half moon of metal — the least movement of which would blast him out of existence . |
| 19 | The child 's greed is obstructing awareness of consequences the facing of which would cause him to refrain ; therefore to let the impulse to refrain prevail over the impulse to eat is a causally necessary condition of obeying the imperative . |
| 20 | His meeting with Peters also seems to have sparked off the long voyaging section of ‘ Death by Water ’ in the Waste Land manuscripts , which would be united with the fate of the ancient Phoenician sailor , Phlebas , and details of which would find their way into ‘ Marina ’ and ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ You chose me to deal with the dog because none of you would do it , ’ Anabelle answered . |
| 22 | How many of you would watch it ? |
| 23 | Although Ceauşescu kept open the question of who would succeed him as both Party leader and head of state , by the 1980s there were only two candidates whom he would tolerate in the necessary launching-pad positions around him . |
| 24 | So it was when , in the spring of 1947 , he announced that he would shortly present to the Cortes the draft of a law which would regulate the question of who would succeed him as Head of State and , equally important , when this event would take place . |
| 25 | He had spent in promoting the scheme money that could have been used in establishing it , and I was both impatient and critical of his capacity to launch and support a large new artistic organisation , particularly as his ideas of who would give him money were hopelessly unrealistic . |
| 26 | It was a question of who would lose her nerve , and Marie could see that Jenna was not about to lose hers . |
| 27 | Nicola Woods found that in a business setting , gender was a better predictor than status of who would interrupt whom . |
| 28 | Those who spoke ill of him would find it difficult to continue such activity without a jaw to move , he considered , and made a mental note to put one of the Secte Rouge in charge of security . |
| 29 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |
| 30 | The quality of it would arouse her and she would grab at him . ’ |