Example sentences of "[prep] it [conj] [pron] would " in BNC.

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1 They do n't get much more out of it than they would from reading a James Bond paperback , but it makes them understand a few of the problems the field men face .
2 This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ?
3 I 'll probably make a better job of it than you would . ’
4 She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse .
5 ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge .
6 Yeah , well I I tried to get rid of it but it would n't go .
7 to most of it and we would n't be producing too much unburnt fuel coming out of the back , you know
8 We could take in a huge dose of it and it would n't harm us one tiny little bit .
9 This happened to be the very moment when I dropped the punt-pole into the water , the idea being that Dennis could grab hold of it and I would then pull him in .
10 He was very geared to the principle of being in an indie band for the sake of it and he would have had difficulty signing to a major label on any terms . ’
11 Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge .
12 This was probably the saving of it as it would most likely have disappeared by now .
13 When the amendment is carried , it becomes the substantive motion and when it is put to the vote you vote against it since you would prefer to give nothing rather than £15 .
14 The shadow Health Secretary , Mr Robin Cook , said Labour was fundamentally opposed to the principle of the bill and would vote against it because it would destroy the public sector ethos of the NHS and was designed to do so .
15 Aha , use th bag we might need to put that behind it if you would n't mind please .
16 I was gon na say as I recollect I did n't see much wrong with it that I would disagree with erm I think it 's nice to see , you know , sort of progress seems to be going on and erm er what I would say is sort of it might be a good idea to sort of line the numbers up a bit more but erm
17 Does n't no , but the point if that was being contemplated and today we get away with it but we would n't get away with it tomorrow or Thursday .
18 Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence .
19 I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre .
20 er because at that time there was quite a lot , you would get one mill in probably with somewhere about seventy looms in it and there would only b be less than ten of them working .
21 There 's probably nothing in it and it would be dreadful to cast suspicion on an innocent person . ’
22 But he told me to think upon it and he would come back for an answer . ’
23 However I am not so enamoured of the sound of my own voice that , bearing in mind what er Dr has said about the amount of business , I would insist on inflicting it upon it if someone would be prepared to second it and the convenor and the assembly be prepared to accept it .
24 He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it .
25 Other mares will tolerate , boss , or defer to it as they would to the mother herself .
26 He could at least spend the money on it that he would have used in buying a ticket to see Dinah , in powdered wig and paduasoy , as Lady Teazle , once again .
27 Explaining that you know you either want further information on it or you would like to erm you know take that one up .
28 The wheelchair provides the ideal type of support , as the patient can not lean on it as he would on a walking frame , because the chair would tip up .
29 This , in most cases , is all the protection the company needs , but it will pay much less for it than it would for a standard policy .
30 Er and if if they would work they did n't want money for it but they would stay a while with you so that they would get their bed for the night and they would get their grub .
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