Example sentences of "they would [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What an excellent product … its first use has prevented the bank foreclosing on a client when it seemed certain that they would wind them up ’ ( HBB Group of Chartered Accountants ) |
| 2 | I had some material and they said they would make it up into a Kamiz for me , so next time I went there I took along a garment that fitted me . |
| 3 | They might not avail to get Harry out of his prison , but they would make it extremely awkward for Isambard to remove him quietly from the world afterwards . |
| 4 | By saying the war was over , the territory pacified , they would make it so . |
| 5 | But as they drew deeper into the coppice , moving farther east all the while , she began to fear they would leave her entirely behind . |
| 6 | Surprisingly they agreed and , to show their compliance , said they would leave it up to me to tell Trevor Proby that he was sacked . |
| 7 | Edgar and Arvin had said they would leave it entirely to me . |
| 8 | The Spectator gets its readers off the hook by a return to Malthus , who made a virtue of not helping the poor , as then , he informed us , they would drag us down by overbreeding . |
| 9 | And so Ruth , the one who has gone out as a poor glean and walking behind the reapers , hoping they would treat her kindly . |
| 10 | If it was in a medicine bottle they would pour it down the sink ! |
| 11 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 12 | They had done this before and they would do it again . |
| 13 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 14 | If a manager had indifferent or poor leadership qualities his subordinates would still do their job , but they would do it ineffectually or perhaps in a confused manner . |
| 15 | Downs said : ‘ If I said what I really thought about the ref , they would lock me up and throw away the key . ’ |
| 16 | They would hide all his own clothes and , having forced him to wear his sister 's , they would lock him out in the street to be chased and bullied by the neighbourhood gangs . |
| 17 | They would miss her greatly . |
| 18 | They would miss it sorely when it was closed to them , and there seemed no chance now that it would n't be . |
| 19 | He could never penetrate , not even if his life depended on it , for he is sure that their nether mouths contain teeth , and that once his limb was inside them , they would bite it off . ’ |
| 20 | They told me not to move my head or they would blow it off . ’ |
| 21 | And then she felt someone holding her and she had to fight ; they would throw her over too . |
| 22 | Otherwise they would kick them off and we 'd lose them . |
| 23 | They would show us that much . |
| 24 | But the pittance they would pay him meantime might be no better than what the Professor offered , and at least the occupation of reading would be more satisfactory than dry law . |
| 25 | There was sense in which , it was n't really in Pilate 's hands , because Jesus had said to him , if I wanted I would speak to my father , he would send ten legions of angels and they would deliver me out of your hands , Pilate , you have no power over me . |
| 26 | ‘ You would find enterprise agencies did not know what to do with a disabled person they would refer them elsewhere and lose the problem . ’ |
| 27 | Well , I suppose to find out his surname , but I have n't found it out , but they said they would stop it anyway . |
| 28 | They would pass you by . |
| 29 | It was expected that they would interview him later today . |
| 30 | Even in that situation you would probably be rescued by a passing cruise ship , on board which they would stuff you endlessly with food to compensate for the boredom of the interminable view of the sea . |