Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's the hardest working of St Andrews ' 98 registered caddies , 67 of whom would report for duty that day . |
| 2 | ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister . |
| 3 | ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later . |
| 4 | At lunch time half a dozen of us would go to a pub at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Euston Road . |
| 5 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 6 | " Last winter , " he recalls , " Myra would come across from Dunoon for a fortnightly session and the three of us would go out onto the practice ground whatever the weather . |
| 7 | sort of like what happened is that Robert was sort of like , the three of us sort of chipped in and bought it between us and stuff like that you know , so that all three of us would get the benefit of it |
| 8 | The three of us would chat about anything and everything for a while then Alan would take him into the surgery so that they could be private . ’ |
| 9 | I took myself off for long walks along the shore and into the hills every morning and did not return to Les Glycines until noon , when the three of us would drive in Otto 's traction avant to one of his favourite places for seafood . |
| 10 | Now wo er erm , I ca n't ask you whether it was the happiest day of your life because only sixty nine of you would know . |
| 11 | Millions of us would love to be in your position . |
| 12 | When the firing stopped , 13 Catholic had been killed and 29 wounded , one of whom would die several weeks later . |
| 13 | The Churchill Bill in 1986 included a list of proscribed depictions any one of which would attract a conviction for obscenity irrespective of context or effect on the viewer . |
| 14 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 15 | The delight of the Gloucester supporters was in no way diminished by the fact that Barnes had missed three easy kicks at goal , any one of which would have wrapped up the game for Bath . |
| 16 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 17 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |
| 18 | Any one of them would bring in a good profit . |
| 19 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
| 20 | ‘ Shelley was elevated to the Bible this morning , ’ one of them would whisper to the other , but they were fond of Mabel and would never hurt her . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh man , I 've had these pants on so long , there are potatoes growing in them , ’ one of them would start off . |
| 22 | Any one of them would love to take away the £1,000 winner 's cheque , won last year by Bristol Amalgamation , but first they 'll have to beat the other hopefuls on what could be a bumper match . |
| 23 | Ruddock , already talking of retirement as he was led , still numb with disbelief , into the night , knew one of them would pay the ultimate price . |
| 24 | He hoped that only one of them would accompany Taheb and himself to the door , and he hoped that person would be Nephthys . |
| 25 | Now , if you consider all possible ways in which the rocks of Mont Blanc could have been thrown together , it is true that only one of them would make Mont Blanc as we know it . |
| 26 | I am sure that every one of them would want that extra money to come to West Yorkshire , as I do . |
| 27 | ‘ I was afraid one of them would stay , ’ he said . |
| 28 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 29 | The feeling in the dressing rooms after the first round was that one of them would collect the Cup . |
| 30 | Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over . |