Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy was pictured in a stilled movement that clearly represented the brief moment before he reached out and reached down to pluck the flower , a movement which would topple him over the edge to certain death . |
| 2 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 3 | ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’ |
| 4 | It made sense to assume that Yuan and Zukov would throw themselves to the right of the line of fire , but he did not wait for them to act . |
| 5 | She would look all right and would throw herself into the dancing with undisciplined enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation . |
| 7 | In the next chapter I will try to increase the order in our neck of the woods a little further by explaining how people are trying to fit together the partial theories I have described to form a complete unified theory that would cover everything in the universe . |
| 8 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 9 | Richard , he said , was deeply offended that anyone should think he would lower himself to the depths of duping the editor of Music Week . |
| 10 | They would prefer someone in the age range 25 — 45 . |
| 11 | Undeterred by an evasive reply , he told me he could even provide a reliable guide who would conduct me across the border . |
| 12 | It was suggested that Library staff could take over this function , since they are scanning the journals in any case , and the work would lend itself to the eventual creation of an image database , but Library staff shortages have made it impossible to undertake this work systematically . |
| 13 | That would make it off the root directory . |
| 14 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 15 | Even if it landed on time , I would have the four-hour journey to Hull and it was unlikely that I would make it to the funeral . |
| 16 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 17 | Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order . |
| 18 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 19 | She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot . |
| 20 | A High Court judge said they would earn nothing from the book , if convicted . |
| 21 | They would scorn you in the condition you 're in . |
| 22 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 23 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 24 | Although they would regard it as the highlight of their year , many would make their way back with a sore head and a light pocket . |
| 25 | He still treated Edward coolly , stating with conviction that he had his orders direct from London and saw no need to go over them in detail , and no possibility that he would modify them on the say-so of a junior officer he did not know . |
| 26 | Such a ban on Hateley would debar him from the European Cup final in May , should Rangers overcome Marseille and then do well enough in their last Group A match , against CSKA Moscow at Ibrox . |
| 27 | This course of action would expose them to the prospect of mounting fines and eventual seizure of assets . |
| 28 | And your answers should be couched in the terms that you would answer somebody in the pub , in that you 're giving them the information , you 're giving it to them in a clean way . |
| 29 | If there were some point under heated discussion , either he or I would write a letter to our own newspaper , using a Burmese pseudonym , and the other would answer it in the name of government . |
| 30 | Enterprising boatbuilders would build it in the hull and superstructures of their rather than tack things on as at present . |