Example sentences of "it would [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He had forbidden the two girls to attend the Requiem Mass because he said it would upset them too much .
2 He 's only nine and it would upset him badly if the school had to close .
3 She had assumed all along that the only reason her father could possibly have for even considering selling the club was concern that she , Rory , could n't cope with running it , that it would prove too much of a burden for her — that it would hold her back from her own career .
4 Satisfied that it would bring them exactly down to the point he wanted on the starboard side of Lord Jim , he asked — " How do you feel about your husband ? "
5 It would lead her safely home .
6 It would pin him up against the nearest wall and try to eat his clothes , or chase him until his cries of fright attracted everyone 's amused attention .
7 I felt it would bind us together .
8 It 's the around it would it would pay you so what you were saying do six in the Autumn and six in the Winter and do n't do anything else .
9 However , I think it would make him rather desperate . ’
10 ‘ You 'd think it would make them more sane and agreeable than the norm .
11 Among the birds , body-armour is absent for the obvious reason that it would make them too heavy to fly .
12 This may be clever and amusing , but you will have to decide whether it would make them too obscure for your students .
13 It would make me very jealous and insecure . ’
14 For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours .
15 ‘ I 'd share your gin , ’ the Bishop 's wife said , ‘ except that it would make me further inclined to cry . ’
16 No ordinary pink this , either , but a pink of a hallucinogenic vividness — Schiaparelli pink , you might say , although you probably would n't because it would make you extremely unpopular .
17 He reckoned it would make you more … susceptible . ’
18 It would make it not just a dream , it would make it something that actually was possible to achieve .
19 I mean , it would make it easier from the point of rehearsing .
20 Apart from any sense of injustice which it might create between one plaintiff and another , it would make it even more difficult for counsel to advise on the correct figure for settlement .
21 Although revised , in its final form the bill did not assuage White House misgivings that it would make it too easy for plaintiffs to prove discrimination , and would force employers to impose hiring and promotion quotas based on race and sex in order to avoid expensive law suits .
22 Proportional representation would not make majority government of this kind impossible ( we would have it if more than 50 per cent of the electorate wanted it ) but it would make it very much less likely .
23 If they could learn to be civil to each other , maybe even friendly , it would make it very much easier to walk away from him when this was all over .
24 In fact , with the try increased to five points it would make it more attractive ’ .
25 Well , it , it does n't mean that permission has to be granted at Finmere , but it , it would make it more difficult to refuse .
26 It looked like some enormous battery-powered bug , and she had serious misgivings as to whether it would make it out of the garage , never mind to Nice .
27 In addition , it would make us far less likely to eat for the wrong reasons .
28 I 'm sure that it would make us more careful the months before .
29 No need to stiffen up like that — you must see that it would affect me professionally . ’
30 I was surprised , certainly , but I did n't think it would affect me too much . ’
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