Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That leaves obvious questions about why exactly this illuminates decisions by finite human agents in worlds full of ‘ friction ’ , but we would rather leave them to Chapter 6 , where Game Theory will be found illuminating for thinking about international relations in an ideal-typical way . |
| 2 | She insisted she would only address herself to the managers . |
| 3 | She longed to get near him , and when he was quite drunk Simone would gently steer him to his room and help him get to bed . |
| 4 | ‘ The guy would obviously like you to be Senhora Haraldsen , ’ he said . |
| 5 | If you had any doubts at all about the digestibility of your bait , you would sensibly change it to something that was digestible ! |
| 6 | which you said it has , er you would perhaps recommend me to some people you know erm like the partner in your er your work or the members of your squash club . |
| 7 | ‘ One would naturally expect him to be well fed . ’ |
| 8 | It would naturally commend itself to an American think-tank . |
| 9 | ( h ) I have no evidence at all from her mother or from any other source that Miss T. 's following of some of the beliefs and some of the practices is so well thought out or deeply considered or sincerely held that the conviction is one which would necessarily lead her to an irrevocable refusal . |
| 10 | He would just sprint himself to a standstill in a couple of hundred metres . |
| 11 | Yeah but she does it like she said though I mean if I was your mum , I said to her if I was , I would just give it to her . |
| 12 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 13 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 14 | They sprang into action when mum Angela Turner said she would not make it to Bishop Auckland hospital in time . |
| 15 | I would not expect them to pair and breed until they are at least four inches long , so you will have to be patient . |
| 16 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 17 | From across the kitchen he said , ‘ I do n't think anything I have painted this autumn is quite as good as this , but then , I would not expect it to be . |
| 18 | That being so , one would not expect there to be fully formulated justifications . |
| 19 | But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it . |
| 20 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 21 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 22 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 23 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 24 | We would not leave it to the discretion of the doctors but , acting on the best medical advice , set down what drugs could be prescribed and those that could not . |
| 25 | But this text clearly belongs to the period after Alexander , though I would not commit myself to a Maccabean date . |
| 26 | Why should rebels who would not commit themselves to the support of the state enjoy its fruits ? |
| 27 | The government remained reluctant to recognize UNITA until it agreed to end its destabilization campaign , while UNITA would not commit itself to ending hostilities until its future political role was guaranteed . |
| 28 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 29 | ‘ I would not show it to my grandchildren , ’ said the 63-year-old actor . |
| 30 | She would not lower herself to the level he clearly thought suited her . |