Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am going to do it , I 'd need to know the English Channel approach backwards . |
| 2 | ( b ) Possession is exactly the sort of book you 'd expect to win the Booker Prize . |
| 3 | ‘ There are these witnesses in the Rosy Crown pub say they heard Tim Cheever say he 'd like to clear the Pitts away , and a man who says he heard Flo Coster say , Do it with poison . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to sail the Amazon |
| 5 | I 'd have hoped the England team would have been selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more |
| 6 | If she were more nervous we 'd have reached the Topper . |
| 7 | If you 're convinced that an acoustic amp is the way to go — and not everyone is convinced , by the way — then you 'd have to compare the Lakewood against the £799 Trace Acoustic TA-100R and perhaps the even more affordable , if more basic , Carlsbro Sherwood . |
| 8 | Laing wanted to make such a good job of the London factory that the reverse would be the case — that the Americans would want to cross the Atlantic to inspect the exemplary way the British ran things . |
| 9 | Matron tried to tell him he would need to feed the Bookman properly but the Headmaster did n't seem to care . |
| 10 | IBM Corp will be split into independent companies , Bill Gates , chairman of Microsoft Corp , told La Tribune in an interview : he said workstations and large systems would need to keep the IBM name , but consulting , disks and personal computers could go by other names . |
| 11 | It would only be a matter of time before the strong-willed de Gaulle would seek to reshape the EEC according to his own conceptions . |
| 12 | The ruling would appear to permit the FBI to go into Panama and kidnap General Noriega , but when reporters asked President Bush yesterday morning if that was the case , he said : ‘ I 'm embarrassed to say I do n't know what ( the answer ) is . ’ |
| 13 | Quate would like to see the SAM used to watch polymer chains in rubber as they stretch and bounce back . |
| 14 | Next he would like to do the Mozart violin sonatas , he says , but he will wait until what he calls ‘ the Mozart frenzy ’ abates . |
| 15 | I see them walking back up Great Scotland Yard afterwards , with the historian lost in thought and Summerchild asking him solicitously if he would like to view the Croydon or Kilburn premises after all . |
| 16 | The Author would like to thank the RAF Museum for its co-operation in the making of this article , and for allowing reference to its own publication on Sugar , A Very Special Lancaster by F E Dymond . |
| 17 | Lyles would like to thank the Stoddard ‘ non-playing ’ Captain , Jimmy Shiels , for stepping in as their late replacement , scoring a creditable 26 points . |
| 18 | I would like to thank the Curwen Archives Trust whose generous grant has made this publication possible . |
| 19 | W. Smith ‘ Atlantic ’ tragedy WE WOULD like to thank the Speke Ambulance Station for their very speedy call out to attend our late N.U.S. President Mr James Henry Slater after his collapse during the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 20 | I would like to thank the Arkleton Trust for making this study possible by awarding me a Fellowship and the Nature Conservancy Council for agreeing to three months study leave . |
| 21 | I told Fred that I would like to get the Otago playing side . |
| 22 | In particular , it would like to reform the FRACs , which are perceived as being an instrument of central government and not sufficiently integrated into local structures . |
| 23 | United Buses and the Darlington Transport Company said they would stop serving the Skerne Park estate if speed humps and a 20mph speed limit were introduced . |
| 24 | The Vietnamese foreign minister , Mr Nguyen Co Thach , told reporters in Hanoi that China had assured Vietnam it would stop arming the Khmers Rouges . |
| 25 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 26 | He leapt forward and slashed at Yuan 's neck , a circular cut which would have beheaded the Manchu if it had connected . |
| 27 | It can scarcely be imagined that he would have opposed the Philadelphia Museum 's immensely well-conceived plan . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I was influenced by AM radio all the time I was growing up , which was all the great '50s rock'n'roll , and I suppose I would have to include The Beatles in that . |
| 29 | Any list of the great industrial achievements of our time would have to include the Wilkinson double-edged blade . |
| 30 | She was not familiar with the type , but she recognized it when she saw it as she would have recognized the Eiffel Tower . |