Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the intention , in the week before the election , was to scare people about what would happen if the Tories won again , it did n't work . |
| 2 | One knows that disabled people from the War are getting older and there possibly are n't quite so many of them , but we felt as a Trust that there were still a number of people about who would benefit from having this sort of accommodation . |
| 3 | He believes that the mere learning of Sanskrit by large numbers of people in itself would represent a quantum leap in consciousness . |
| 4 | It was just one more sign of his separateness from the people around who would buy a cow or a few more fields . |
| 5 | ‘ There are undoubtedly people around who would like to bounce things in that direction ( towards fees ) . ’ |
| 6 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 7 | Philip hoped he 'd find his dog and the pair of them would clear off . |
| 8 | A pail of ice-cold water over the pair of them would have been the best idea . |
| 9 | The problem of the slowed rate of spin of the Sun and its large mass was solved when post-war scientists looked beyond the dynamics of what would happen to purely solid bodies functioning according to Newtonian laws . |