Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Thorne felt that he would rather defend one airport than two . |
| 2 | The bottles would therefore go back to the company , which would only pay one deposit on each bottle but the deposit would end up in the hands , not of the purchasers of the soft drinks , but of the defendants . |
| 3 | I could feel an awful churning going on down there , and I was sure it would only end one way , but I could n't move . |
| 4 | But the incidence of Down 's is such that a process of integration would only involve one child with Down 's entering one in every 20 classes in normal primary schools . |
| 5 | It would only take one phone call to blow her cover . |
| 6 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 7 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 8 | She would only have one shot , and she had to be ready to make it count . |
| 9 | He knew he would only get one chance with the plastic . |
| 10 | He did say that with the mass attendance at around about nine hundred that we would only get one priest |
| 11 | You would just see one end of a person lying on it . |
| 12 | She would not shed one tear ! |
| 13 | Edouard tried very hard to persuade him to talk , and to relax ; Grégoire would not say one word . |
| 14 | Years later , when I was with Sandford in the Second World War , he told me that people in Addis Ababa had been saying that I would not have one chance in ten of survival if I entered Aussa . |
| 15 | If you could take my love in your hands , you would not find one mark upon it , not one . |
| 16 | The first thing I said to the commissioning editors when I met them is that I would not commission one programme . |
| 17 | Those blessed with a prophetic vision of soccer 's future , like Mike Channon and myself , are often completely ignored or misunderstood , whereas charlatans who would not know one end of a football from another , the Reg Pybuses and Howard Wilkinsons of this world , suck up to mediocrity and call it talent . |
| 18 | A more comprehensive description of the bones would probably reinforce one explanation or the other . |
| 19 | At times I would also use one colour on top of another , dry , to obtain the required shade . |
| 20 | I would n't change one thing about it . ’ |
| 21 | She would n't feel one twitch of guilt if it was n't for Miss Phoebe . |
| 22 | There was no issue on which he would n't take one side or other and preferably the minority , or losing side . |
| 23 | But a nigger would n't know one name from another , would he ? |
| 24 | He 'd made the assumption that Sanchez would n't know one way or the other . |
| 25 | ‘ Would n't know one tea from another . |
| 26 | ‘ And , for the record , I would n't touch one centime of your rotten money . ’ |
| 27 | His duty done — that Jarvis would never know one way or the other made no difference in Jasper 's estimation — he went back on to the landing which by now was in darkness . |