Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that document , there is a very strong reference to the fact that that power should be either restrictive or removed and that there should be a right of appeal against it , which would effectively prevent us from using it . |
| 2 | Roger suddenly launched into this discussion about how they 'd identified the need for someone to join the team with a view to becoming a main board member ; this person would effectively release him from a lot of the day-to-day public company responsibilities and the accounting , reporting and auditing areas , so that he could focus on being part of the entrepreneurial team , organising financing and liaising with the City . |
| 3 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 4 | Horsley was being slowly crippled by a rare type of paralysis spreading from his ankle , which meant that he now had to walk with a stick , and which it was feared would eventually put him in a wheelchair . |
| 5 | Once through the narrows , and having explored and discounted tempting-looking passages that turned out to go nowhere — Bahia Inútil : one can almost sense Magellan growling with irritation as he named this immense body of water useless — the Captain-General entered the narrow waterway that would eventually take him into the neighbour-ocean . |
| 6 | If we were to continue teaching brief introductory courses to continually expanding numbers , constant repetition would impair their quality , and would eventually impair it beyond recognition . |
| 7 | A journalist would rarely turn you in whatever you claimed you had done . |
| 8 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Apparently they would rather spend it on buying gold and dollars which is all that keeps them going . |
| 11 | I would rather describe it as a lively interest . ’ |
| 12 | So , one Member of Parliament 's idea ‘ to have girl muggers whipped ’ would turn back the clock to the 1820s when corporal punishment for women was abolished , whereas another Parliamentary recommendation to ‘ Bring back stocks for hooligans ’ would presumably transport us into the Dark Ages . |
| 13 | And yet it still seems questionable whether Scorsese 's work has the range and the depth which would properly carry him beyond celebrity to ‘ greatness ’ . |
| 14 | This situation is doubtless taken for granted by today 's generation , yet , less than twenty-five years ago , leading statisticians were expressing concern lest interposition of the machine would so distance them from the data under consideration that the quality of analysis would suffer . |
| 15 | ‘ If he would only leave me in peace . ’ |
| 16 | Dad would only blame them for what she was doing . |
| 17 | If , as I 'm inclined to believe , this unwonted willingness to kiss the rod represents one last offer by Pound ( at this time , aged forty-eight ! ) to enrol in Binyon 's seminar if Binyon would only call it into being , Binyon once again knew better than to understand what Pound was driving at . |
| 18 | Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’ |
| 19 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 20 | Evans did admit buying a can of petrol on the way to Birdlip , but he thought White would only use it as a threat to rob Mr Stokle , nothing too serious . |
| 21 | I saw the candle-lit flash of the little star at her throat ; saw too that to contrive a longer stay would only put her under further pressure . |
| 22 | ‘ Because , ’ said Heffer , ‘ you would only put it in your bloody memoirs for money . ’ |
| 23 | He would only see it as a weakness to be used against her , or worse , as an attempt to ingratiate herself . |
| 24 | Fresh legislation would only drive it into some more objectionable form . |
| 25 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 26 | Coleen , however , although she loved Mr Cubbage , wanted time to think things over and would gently scold him for his haste . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ MY GRANDADDY … would gently nudge me off the sidewalk if a white person ever walked close by . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The guy would obviously like you to be Senhora Haraldsen , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Camping holidays were always in the rain , but my parents would constantly remind us throughout the fortnight that the sun was ‘ trying to come out ’ . |