Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way , Brian asked me to London again , but I thought I 'd wait till the weather 's better . ’ |
| 2 | I dare say it 's silly of me but I thought we 'd wait till the coast was clear , so to speak , ’ she ended , smiling at her own accidental pun . |
| 3 | I 'd panic when the house was getting too small , then I 'd go outside . |
| 4 | Oh that was messy , you 're telling me was messy , I 've known cups of tea , you put a cup of tea on there the other cup of tea was there , well we never used to have saucers could n't afford them , that 'd be there a mug of tea and that 'd move like that off the table that 'd come cos the dredger was shaking so much . |
| 5 | ‘ So I thought I 'd strike while the iron was hot so to speak and we were just passing and so here we are . ’ |
| 6 | Islanders correctly realized that such employment as the mine would bring would be short-term , while any damage done would remain after the mining company left . |
| 7 | Not that I do n't like you , Simon , but you would think if the man goes to all this trouble to rescue me he could at least stay around afterwards . ’ |
| 8 | The costs of regulation would arise whether the Institute or some other body was responsible . |
| 9 | Thus the reasons put forward for the present rule are first , that it preserves the constitutional proprieties leaving Parliament to legislate in words and the courts ( not Parliamentary speakers ) , to construe the meaning of the words finally enacted ; second , the practical difficulty of the expense of researching Parliamentary material which would arise if the material could be looked at ; third , the need for the citizen to have access to a known defined text which regulates his legal rights ; fourth , the improbability of finding helpful guidance from Hansard . |
| 10 | The strongest argument in favour of the taxpayers is the anomaly which would arise if the employer 's business were running at a loss or was subsidised by endowment . |
| 11 | It would arise if the motor trader were the agent of the finance company in dealing with the customer . |
| 12 | Further problems would arise if the defendant chose to give evidence himself or call witnesses . |
| 13 | So the climate conforms almost totally — to the east of the Date Line — to what is called the planetary weather system , the theoretical system of winds and pressures that would exist if the earth was a near-perfect spheroid unencumbered with continents , mountain chains and other complicating nuisances . |
| 14 | For you would see the jeep in front of you proceeding along the Egyptian highway in a very dignified manner , when all of a sudden it would swing in to the side of the road near a fruit-barrow , a large brown hand would shoot out , and a succulent water-melon would disappear as the jeep accelerated away again . |
| 15 | Thus the list of books mentioned in the example above , could be keyed in and sorted in RAM but if the microcomputer was switched off , the information would disappear as the RAM would be cleared . |
| 16 | ‘ As the transport and strategic planning authority for the area around Edinburgh as well as within the city itself , Lothian Regional Council is able to take an overview which smaller single-tier councils would lack if the Government abolished the region . |
| 17 | But if a voidable disposition were registered before being avoided , I would doubt whether the register could be rectified under paragraph ( d ) , even if the disposition were voidable on account of fraud . |
| 18 | Bush 's lawyers announced that they would appeal if the judge 's recommendation was accepted by the Office of Thrift Supervision . |
| 19 | It would include as the policy is drafted light industry in town centres . |
| 20 | Instead , the Novice would wait until the start of a new season and , having managed to buy some appropriate clothes , would then ‘ appear ’ at the back of the terrace . |
| 21 | A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart , nobble him and throw him on the train , slip the guards a few dollars and wave goodbye . |
| 22 | The 230-207 vote in the Sejm ( lower house ) ended a week of uncertainty in which the prime minister , Hanna Suchocka , had threatened that her government would resign if the budget failed . |
| 23 | SIR Richard Attenborough , the chairman of Channel 4 , yesterday warned he would resign if the Government insisted on a right to veto appointments to the new body which will run the channel . |
| 24 | Havel urged that a referendum should be held by December 1991 , implying that he would resign if the issue remained unsolved . |
| 25 | The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was held , as would normally have been expected , at the end of October 1894 in a mood of retrenchment and with threats from Wilson , now designated general president , and Robert McBride , recently created general secretary , that they would no longer tolerate " the underhand and carping pettiness of branch officials " and their " present lax and disorderly method of conducting the business of the union " and would resign if the situation did not improve . |
| 26 | And de Gaulle had , on each occasion , made strong personal appeals for a large " yes " vote , implicitly and sometimes explicitly indicating that he would resign if the vote went against him . |
| 27 | Health Minister Camilo González Pozo , a member of AD/M-19 , said that he would resign if the arrest warrants were enforced . |
| 28 | Her teacher would know whether the idea of ‘ growing ’ is one that confuses Nichola , and would know whether or not to pursue the idea on another occasion . |
| 29 | Pascoe felt as though he were seeing a moment from his future but could n't guess what he would feel when the moment arrived . |
| 30 | Although I appreciate that no one should at present , and on the Floor of the House , talk lightheartedly about the deployment of military forces in Northern Ireland , will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the considerable virtue that many would feel if the border with the Irish Republic were more effectively supervised hereafter ? |