Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy was pictured in a stilled movement that clearly represented the brief moment before he reached out and reached down to pluck the flower , a movement which would topple him over the edge to certain death . |
| 2 | Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation . |
| 3 | No lie would aid him in a contest with a master of the craft , but the truth , his only hope of gaining the upper hand , had to remain hidden . |
| 4 | " Mrs Plant , " Timothy said quite softly , and Mr Plant whispered that if he issued another sound he would thump him to a pulp . |
| 5 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 6 | Undeterred by an evasive reply , he told me he could even provide a reliable guide who would conduct me across the border . |
| 7 | That would make it off the root directory . |
| 8 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 9 | Even if it landed on time , I would have the four-hour journey to Hull and it was unlikely that I would make it to the funeral . |
| 10 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 11 | His forecast looked like being correct , which meant that Steve Richardson would make it after a 72 for a total of 143 . |
| 12 | Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order . |
| 13 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 14 | She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot . |
| 15 | They would scorn you in the condition you 're in . |
| 16 | Well you would treat them as a separate entity . |
| 17 | She would treat him as a delinquent , a time-waster , a bad child , whose offences could only be petty . |
| 18 | As for Miguel , he would treat her to a long stare with those soulful eyes and mutter something she did not understand . |
| 19 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 20 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 21 | In fact , if she were there for two months , it would be unlikely that it would regard her as a resident . |
| 22 | Her main fear was that the court would regard her as an unfit mother because of her sexuality . |
| 23 | Nowadays , the majority of people would regard it as a perfectly natural variation to be indulged in should both partners feel like it . |
| 24 | For example , followers of Islam would regard it as a blatant affront to the omnipotence of Allah/ God that He should be confined within a mortal frame , yet they accord Jesus an important role as a prophet . |
| 25 | Gandhi would regard it as a failure to preserve or maintain the function of symbols and a degeneration of their purpose . |
| 26 | More than half say they would n't be put off a woman if they knew she carried condoms ; only 17% would regard it as a turn-off . |
| 27 | Time and again we have put down the markers and placed on record that we would regard it as a perfectly reasonable alternative to what exists now if there were a series of companies throughout Scotland which represented the ownership of those at present employed by the Scottish Bus Group under the same conditions as at present and with the same commitment to the current level of services . |
| 28 | The vast majority of insurers would regard it as a perfectly normal step for a plaintiff 's solicitor to issue and serve a writ and , after acknowledgement of service by their solicitors , would call for the papers back and continue negotiations . |
| 29 | Although they would regard it as the highlight of their year , many would make their way back with a sore head and a light pocket . |
| 30 | Thus , although we are wary of claiming too much for statistical analysis , we would regard it as an essential and important tool in stylistic description . |