Example sentences of "and would [verb] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were just curious , and would pretend to have lost their way and hope to be invited to spend a night . |
| 2 | He hunted , mostly with peregrines , on the Cairnmore estate , including the Oa , Ballivicar , Glenmachrie , Leorin and Kilbride , and would appear to have had considerable success . |
| 3 | Conversely , if we are concerned about ex post outcomes , we would not be happy about treating the person as receiving the average , or actuarial , benefit from government spending ( e.g. , on health ) , and would want to try to measure the actual provision in relation to need . |
| 4 | And I stumbled and would have fallen had it not been for the wall . ’ |
| 5 | George Sutherland , chairman of the Scottish White Fish Producers Association , said skippers could not afford to remain in harbour , and would have to continue fishing . |
| 6 | Deaf mothers often said they did not understand descriptions of the advance of the baby during the second stage of labour and would have liked to see what was happening . |
| 7 | He was perspiring and would have liked to take off his jacket . |
| 8 | She was burning with curiosity and would have liked to question Madame Gebrec , but it was obvious that to do so would arouse painful memories . |
| 9 | Nenna admired him and would have liked to throw her arms round him . |
| 10 | Doctor Lovell , who knew both women slightly , suspected that she was brow-beaten by the dominating Ella and would have liked to try the effects of an iron tonic on Dimity 's languid pallor . |
| 11 | He had enjoyed the city and would have liked to stay longer . |
| 12 | She had been surprised , in fact , to discover just how many other vessels there were out there , and would have liked to stay longer , but duty called . |
| 13 | Cardinal Paolo Evaristo Arns , Archbishop of Sao Paolo , was in Belgium at the time of her death and would have liked to have said her Requiem Mass . |
| 14 | It is known that he wished to stay in the Government and would have liked to have pressed on with the reform of prisons . |
| 15 | He had nodded , open-mouthed , and would have liked to have stayed longer , just gazing at the beauties , but Molly had hurried him away . |
| 16 | Brian was also aware of other emergencies and admissions taking place and would have liked to have been told what was happening . |
| 17 | Morton had not taken up arms previously , but he knew that some of his friends would have gone to the conventicle and would have volunteered to take part in the unequal contest against the soldiers . |
| 18 | I stirred the potato powder into the liquid and would have begun eating but it was too hot . |
| 19 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 20 | Jeremy Bates was not ranked high enough to have gone straight into the main singles draw and would have had to take part in the qualifying competition . |
| 21 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 22 | Those investors ( assume a holding of 1000 shares ) who took up their rights would have seen the value of their investment fall from 1000 ( 2.34 ) = 2,340 to 1000 ( 1.98 ) = 1,980 and would have had to find a further 200 ( 190 ) = 380 to invest in the company . |
| 23 | There was also a reluctance to attempt the transformation of the unions which would have been required to turn them into instruments of workers ' control , since this would clearly have introduced an element of responsibility which was foreign to the previous practice of trade unionism , and would have meant taking on board the awkward problem of reconciling , within a reconstructed union framework , the interests of workers in the given nationalised industry and the interests of working people as a whole , as regards the running of that industry . |
| 24 | At this temperature protons and neutrons would no longer have sufficient energy to escape the attraction of the strong nuclear force , and would have started to combine together to produce the nuclei of atoms of deuterium ( heavy hydrogen ) , which contain one proton and one neutron . |
| 25 | But the taxidermy process would have been an expensive business and would have included soaking his skin in tan pits for 14 days , scraping and sandpapering his body , paying the barber for shaving him and cutting his toe nails and one final payment of a shilling for a strong cork . |
| 26 | Rubbish from a household was often buried in pits , and would have included worn out and broken objects in addition to food debris such as animal bones and oyster shells . |
| 27 | They would have therefore had an advantage and would have tended to replace the original macro-molecules . |
| 28 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 29 | But even the happiness Mother and Father felt at being able to live together under the same roof at last was tinged with sadness , because they both liked Stainmore very much and would have preferred to stay in the area . |
| 30 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |