Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 4 | Undeterred by an evasive reply , he told me he could even provide a reliable guide who would conduct me across the border . |
| 5 | That would make it off the root directory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They would scorn you in the condition you 're in . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He still treated Edward coolly , stating with conviction that he had his orders direct from London and saw no need to go over them in detail , and no possibility that he would modify them on the say-so of a junior officer he did not know . |
| 17 | Such a ban on Hateley would debar him from the European Cup final in May , should Rangers overcome Marseille and then do well enough in their last Group A match , against CSKA Moscow at Ibrox . |
| 18 | This course of action would expose them to the prospect of mounting fines and eventual seizure of assets . |
| 19 | If there were some point under heated discussion , either he or I would write a letter to our own newspaper , using a Burmese pseudonym , and the other would answer it in the name of government . |
| 20 | Enterprising boatbuilders would build it in the hull and superstructures of their rather than tack things on as at present . |
| 21 | If you would pardon me on the sheet , it 's a shame Mr 's not here , because that was his decision , because of the imposed cut in stationery from last year , we ran out of it |
| 22 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |
| 23 | Athelstan had hidden his smile beneath a stern look and said he would discuss it with the church council . |
| 24 | She would discuss it in the morning , and see sense then . |
| 25 | ‘ They kept putting our talks off , saying they would discuss it after the final . |
| 26 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 27 | She would need them over the weekend , God willing . |
| 28 | Although he felt sure he would win her in the end , he was annoyed at her continuing coyness . |
| 29 | Work out beforehand the sort of person you think would be most suitable for the job and tell the interviewer which personal qualities you have which you feel would suit you to the job . |
| 30 | Any story which carries the imputation of discreditable conduct by somebody will be actionable by a plaintiff who can show that at least some readers would recognise him as the person being criticised , or that the facts in the story necessarily imply such an allegation against him . |