Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | That would make me some kind of accessory after the fact , would n't it ? ’ |
2 | Perhaps we would need it some time . |
3 | For me , his victory last season with Ten Plus when there were only four runners , convinced me his chaser would win him another Gold Cup , a race he must have won had he not fallen at that fatal third fence from home . |
4 | ‘ I think it would suit you that way . ’ |
5 | Notwithstanding the fact that this amount of money would buy you any amount of glossy varnish , cheap gold plating , plastic pearl and flamed-maple veneer , these German-made acoustics appear exceptional value . |
6 | The monks and nuns , virtually pensioned-off gentry , could see little future except death in resisting the royal will and threw in their lot with a change that would guarantee them reasonable security . |
7 | He just quoted the verses , smiled , and said they would bring him great success . |
8 | He also knew that his grandmother 's death would bring him additional wealth . |
9 | Then Mozart would supply the publisher Hoffmeister with a series of compositions which would bring him enough revenue to repay the debt over two years . |
10 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
11 | Although they had quarrelled so bitterly Mrs Gotobed had still loved Mr Evans , deep down in her heart , and the message she had asked Carrie to give him would show him this plain , . |
12 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
13 | But I do n't think it would do me any harm to develop some more organizational skills because mos most jobs require them . |
14 | The capital of Czechoslovakia is fascinating , and a few words here would do it little justice — you 'll have to get a guide book for the full story ! |
15 | I said er that we would do it this weekend . |
16 | She would do it this evening . |
17 | I would cheat him that way . |
18 | Luke telephoned her early to tell her , tersely , what time he would fetch her that night , and although she put a frigid resentment into her voice Maria did n't demur , since it was in their public , professional capacities that the radio station 's personnel had been issued with complimentary tickets to the first Taiwanese appearance of a fairly famous American singer . |
19 | Vic , raised in Darlington , and partner Bob Mortimer , a former solicitor from Middlesbrough , are already being hailed as the new Morecambe and Wise , and a BBC2 series would give them wider exposure . |
20 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
21 | Eastern European countries were likewise keen to join or at least to negotiate with the EC association agreements which would give them preferential access to EC markets . |
22 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
23 | by logical deduction , which would give them absolute character . ’ |
24 | But it would give them much-needed practice in monitoring lower limits in future . |
25 | At least it would give them some idea , at least they would now understand how things were . |
26 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
27 | A strange circle — not all of one tribe or one nation , but ever-present , as though rubbing up against him would give them some strength . |
28 | As I explained earlier , I nearly threw my oil pastels away in frustration , but I thought I would give them another try with a different approach . |
29 | Growing exports would give them foreign currency — the means to raise living standards and modernise their factories . |
30 | However , if the GPs were to act as Health Maintenance Organizations ( HMOs ) and have a budget to cover the total care for their patients , a Type I system would give them considerable freedom of referral , but would not necessarily increase the patients ' freedom . |