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 .
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