Example sentences of "[noun prp] would [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King of Ireland would take over the ceremonial duties of the Irish President , who is now nominally set over the Irish Prime Minister . |
| 2 | Maybe one day , Boardwalk would pick up a bad race — like the John Sturgeon Selling Plate at Kempton . |
| 3 | Doris was always coming weeping and shrieking to Mavis in those days , saying he 'd be the death of her , and meanwhile Fred would reel down the cellar steps and visit the tarts for consolation . |
| 4 | ‘ Silver would put up the pirate 's flag , the Jolly Roger , ’ said Ben . |
| 5 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 6 | Erm well certainly Tom would come up every every week , tell us what had happened , if anything . |
| 7 | Another aspect of the proposal was that Glaxo would set up a research centre and co-market Imigran with a French company . |
| 8 | In my view a late-night show pairing Jameson and Clary would wipe out the entire listenership of Radios 1 , 3 , 4 and 5 , not to mention all commercial stations . |
| 9 | NSA would pick up the call with their satellites ; the British GCHQ would get it ; so would the Russians … |
| 10 | Lee would pick out a suitably drunk customer , extol the virtues of his " sister " and then lure the man into a nearby darkened alley where , more often than not , the customer was attacked and robbed of everything he had on him , sometimes even his clothing . |
| 11 | They had decided , the previous evening , after Cain and Abel and How the Camel Got his Hump , that every day Willie would get up a little earlier than usual to practise writing and reading before leaving for school . |
| 12 | The body had been removed to the mortuary where Dr Franks would carry out the post mortem . |
| 13 | And for those who were n't … well , no doubt Luke Hunter would turn up the charm and devise some plausible enough explanation . |
| 14 | They were told by Jesus not to speculate about the time when God would bring in the kingdom in all its fullness , but , once they had received the Holy Spirit , they were to witness to Jesus in Jerusalem , Judaea , Samaria , and throughout the world ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 15 | However the link was not lost , and the hope grew in Israel that one day God would raise up a prince of the Davidic line for whom the Spirit would be no passing enduement , to be bestowed and with drawn as he joined his predecessors in disobedience . |
| 16 | Something that he did n't take into account when working out forecasts , however , was that ICL would set up a new subsidiary , ICL PC GmbH . |
| 17 | Marc would lap up the opportunity to use it against her . |
| 18 | A genuinely free air-travel market in America and Europe would spark off a wave of restructuring among European airlines . |
| 19 | It was agreed that the SAS would carry out a series of raids on these airfields in early July , leaving only a week to prepare for departure . |
| 20 | He had known that Sidacai would work out the nature of the venture before he had to be told . |
| 21 | Since , in 1850 , the one bastion of that order which had escaped major trouble in 1848 was the Russian Empire , it was likely that at some point France would throw down the gauntlet to the tsar . |
| 22 | One of his most senior colleagues , Mr Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , indicated that , if the Tories were the biggest party in a hung Parliament , Mr Major would draw up a programme of legislation and put it to the vote in Parliament rather than seeking any formal deal with the Liberal Democrats or Ulster Unionists . |
| 23 | A hatrick of goals tomorrow at Newcastle would go down a treat . |
| 24 | A hatrick of goals tomorrow at Newcastle would go down a treat . |
| 25 | What needs to be spelt out very clearly before polling day is that PR would bring about the opposite effect to what many voters comfortably believe . |
| 26 | But the day was saved by Everett , who agreed — after pressurizing his boss , Alastair Morton — that Guinness Mahon would take up the remaining shares . |
| 27 | Under the proposal Poland would allocate over a twenty-year period the zloty equivalent of the hard currency involved to set up and develop schemes to reduce pollution and improve the environment in Poland . |
| 28 | Robert was not envious ; he knew that the time would come when he must retire , though not yet ; and Dinah would carry on the name and the tradition . |
| 29 | The EC would take on a direct role in defence affairs in the medium term by gradually absorbing the WEU . |
| 30 | I wish Chris would pick up the phone . ’ |