Example sentences of "would [vb infin] they at [art] " in BNC.

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1 She 'd phone them at the very first opportunity , knowing how they would have worried .
2 Or I mean I think he 's , she 's bitten him before , if he had any sense he 'd leave them at the gate or something , I mean somebody would go for them .
3 He said he 'd put them at a friend 's house for safe keeping , and the friend just happened to have gone away on holiday .
4 Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ?
5 They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards .
6 To pick and choose which plants they were going to eat would put them at a disadvantage since they would waste so much time looking for food , rather than eating it .
7 Efforts by the EC to introduce a tax last year were frustrated by the Bush administration 's opposition to the concept which European industrialists claimed would put them at an unfair disadvantage in world markets .
8 Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers .
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