Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished that someone would invent a button that you pressed , and shazam ! — you were tucked in bed , washed and with your teeth brushed . |
| 2 | I wish someone would put a stop to smoking on television . |
| 3 | Curtius Kenn was a bloody nuisance , and sooner or later someone would put a ScumStopper under his heart and get himself free drinks on the house for a month . |
| 4 | They knew she was a doctor now , and Mandy had already warned her that nobody would want a doctor serving them their beer . |
| 5 | She said she loved him , they said they loved him , but somehow nobody would fix a date for a marriage . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’ |
| 7 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 8 | oh yes , but not in the ordinary er there was a huge place , where you could put tables all round the tables , you see , and , and er it was a and er I liked it , I , when they were busy , you see , I used to , especially if they had an order for these hundreds of cups of tea , er , you see , I used to go down and give a hand then , I used to like it , you see , somebody would give a shout and I would come down from the office and and left them anyway and then er I heard of this job . |
| 9 | For none would break a shell or leg |
| 10 | ‘ I wish one could stand apart from one 's own life and watch its development as one would watch a play . |
| 11 | Moreover , whatever one 's account of political power , no one would urge a revolution ‘ upon every little mismanagement in public affairs ’ . |
| 12 | One would want a facility for finding every occurrence of these words ; but only in the definitions , not in the quotations . |
| 13 | If the anti-conspiracy rhetoric were pan of an argument against the tradition , as opposed to an argument within it , then one would expect a disengagement from the ideology of conspiracy . |
| 14 | In other words , the list operates at a much higher level of pre coordination of concepts than one would expect a thesaurus to support . |
| 15 | Since AFDC is specifically directed at the relief of poverty , one would expect a correlation between the level of poverty in a State and the number of recipients there . |
| 16 | Moreover , Buzzell and Gale argue that , as larger-share businesses do not continuously increase their ROI differential over small-share businesses , one would expect a zero correlation between the change in ROI and market share , which is broadly what Jacobson and Aaker found . |
| 17 | To see the point of the question , generalize Lipsey 's diagram and reflect that , since amendment and replacement are fluid alternatives , one would expect a process of gradual and continuous accumulation . |
| 18 | Since the phonemes are distributed among only six categories ( approximately half the number of mid-class categories ) , there is a considerable loss of information , and one would expect an increase in the size of the equivalence sets . |
| 19 | Instead , the Poet offers the Friend a gift as one would offer a sacrifice to a god , pagan or Christian ( Shakespeare used the religious term ‘ oblation ’ just once in all his writings , for this poem ) . |
| 20 | For example , the small cell was so amply used in the classical period that one would think a composer of originality would have looked for something different . |
| 21 | More formally , if one were to use all the known past values of in a regression of one would , by the conventional ordinary least-squares formula , estimate the coefficient on to be γ and one would estimate a constant of zero . |
| 22 | Er so one would like a little bit more clarification there perhaps . |
| 23 | It used to be argued that , for example , a motorway could not be sold or that no one would buy a sewer . |
| 24 | On increasing income tax , he said : ‘ One would see a change in that with the utmost regret . |
| 25 | Teaching about computers is important , both technically and from the role they 're going to have in the children 's lives , but as I have said before the main interest , from an educational point of view , is using it as one would use a video tape or an overhead projector or a blackboard and a piece of chalk . |
| 26 | No one would believe a word of it . ’ |
| 27 | In an ideal world one would take a work and ask , ‘ What does this music require ? ’ |
| 28 | No one would take a decision . |
| 29 | Nor , I realize now , was she exactly what one would call a liar : . |
| 30 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |