Example sentences of "would [vb infin] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know why you should think I 'd object to a frisky man , military or otherwise . |
| 2 | There was no way she 'd respond to a third degree , so I was hoping she 'd decide I was harmless . |
| 3 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 4 | When I 'd come to a safe stop and turned off the motor , I broke down and sobbed . |
| 5 | Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way . |
| 6 | She 'd come to a dead end . |
| 7 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 8 | These are the sort of things we 'd say to a good person in a formal situation , erm , you 're reliable , trustworthy , you know , we can rely on you to do a good job for us , doing your job well and with enthusiasm , when left in charge there 's been no problems , you 're responsible and flexible , you 're conscientious , I can trust you for , to do a good job and thank you for your contribution to the team . |
| 9 | I 'm sure he 'd agree to a later date if — ’ |
| 10 | Her mother 's moodswings began to terrify her , and she would slow to a careful frozen walk as she turned into their street . |
| 11 | An extreme form of restriction would relate to a specific government grant . |
| 12 | Ah erm well , Chairman , I I think that this is something that 's going to cut , as far as Hambledon 's got concerns , is going to come up in the erm in the next debate , certainly , erm , the erm , the issue of erm whether policy should be expressed in terms of principle and criteria , or erm area and a district as being a dilemma erm to Hambledon , erm , it feels it 's erm erm not being able to support the policy as defined , because ultimately the Council would object to a new settlement in Hambledon . |
| 13 | IAAF spokeswoman Jayne Pearce today confirmed that the federation did not accept the Ohio court decision and would appeal to a higher court in Cincinnati . |
| 14 | One question that the newly appointed editor Tim Marlowe ( of the Tate 's education department ) will have to decide is the editorial stance of the magazine : he has to balance the curatorial concerns of the Tate with issues that would appeal to a general reader while treading an ideologically independent path . |
| 15 | A male editor might better appreciate the merits of his style : ‘ twinkling nipples ’ was the kind of phrase that would appeal to a real man . |
| 16 | While not primarily a composer of chamber music , his substantial Piano Trio performed by the Joubert Trio in 1985 , would appeal to a wide audience . |
| 17 | It would swell to a raging headache , just in time for him to finish his shift . |
| 18 | The field linguist , engaged in radical translation , asks himself under what conditions the natives would assent to a given occasion sentence S , and under what conditions they would dissent . |
| 19 | Each letter would refer to a standard paragraph , although in paragraph A there is the need for the insertion of a date . |
| 20 | What was meant for a joyous occasion would shrivel to a general wretchedness . |
| 21 | Britain would advance to a higher stage of civilization via favourable environment and sound heredity . |
| 22 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 23 | Many would look to a professional perspective to balance these developments in the interests of the clients and it is to an examination of this perspective that the chapter now turns . |
| 24 | In the longt term , Labour would look to a steep reduction in toxic waste and to the elimination of some of the most dangerous types of waste . |
| 25 | But the regulatory functions over the food industry , now split between MAFF and the Department of Health , would transfer to a new Food Standards Agency . |
| 26 | One of the earliest was the study by Gagné and Baker ( 1950 ) with which I began this chapter ( fig. 5.1 ) , this study being designed to show that training in applying a different verbal label to each of the various stimulus lights would produce differentiation among them that would transfer to a subsequent motor task . |
| 27 | And , just as the conquest of Morocco had been undertaken at the turn of the century to counteract the divisive effects of " the Disaster " by giving Spaniards a new , common enterprise with which to identify , one might have expected that in 1956 Franco would resort to a military campaign to save Morocco to unite the regime forces around himself and divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 28 | I mean Josh is alright , I mean Josh will understand , if Darrel said to him look , this is the situation , Josh would understand to a certain extent . |
| 29 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 30 | If that is the report to which he is referring , when asked how I would react to a Select Committee report I said that it would depend on what it said . |