Example sentences of "of [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of me would love to be in a relationship , but I 'm cautious about getting involved , even though I desperately want to be loved . |
| 2 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 3 | Then , in the car , the two of them would sing nonsensical songs , made up from Yiddish slang , at the tops of their voices and talk gibberish — childish , therapeutic , playful gibberish . |
| 4 | He could n't mean she belonged to him — that would be the last thing either of them would want — but the predatory gleam in his eyes said differently , and an involuntary spark of anticipation was born deep inside her . |
| 5 | I am sure that every one of them would want that extra money to come to West Yorkshire , as I do . |
| 6 | Apart from anything else , if prisons were places where criminals had to work , fewer of them would want to go to prison . |
| 7 | There are 27 women deacons in the Chester Diocese at the moment and diocesan spokesman , Rev Tim Barker , said he anticipated that many of them would want to be ordained . |
| 8 | Some of them would make their way to the railway station , but a few , having no horse and trap and unable to afford even the train fare , would travel on foot the whole week , often sleeping rough in the fields or in barns or farmhouses . |
| 9 | ‘ Any of them would make you a better wife than I could . |
| 10 | Now , if you consider all possible ways in which the rocks of Mont Blanc could have been thrown together , it is true that only one of them would make Mont Blanc as we know it . |
| 11 | The people who took it round tended to assume that in a house of four storeys there must be two families : some of them would leave four copies . |
| 12 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 13 | Philip hoped he 'd find his dog and the pair of them would clear off . |
| 14 | Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over . |
| 15 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 16 | Then , unerringly , he found his way to Modigliani , wherever he was , and the two of them would drink the night away until they were unconscious , taken to the police station and beaten up . |
| 17 | Funnily enough , none of them would drink and drive or not wear a seatbelt . ’ |
| 18 | If the business is subsequently hived up to Newco at less than both cost and market value , this will depress the value of Target 's shares , so that a subsequent disposal of them would realise a loss . |
| 19 | Most of them would go for four or five months before any change of clothing reached them , not perhaps such a hardship as , without a change of clothes , Bernard Callinan found his irritating prickly-heat rash disappeared . |
| 20 | If underground outfits had to go legal many of them would go bust , their profitability often lying in their clandestine nature . |
| 21 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 22 | At least , yeah , I should think nine tenths of them would go , very there 's yesterday 's winner darling . |
| 23 | Anyway , neither of them would inform the police about him . |
| 24 | Anyone looking at the two of them would think that they were lovers . |
| 25 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 26 | He hoped that only one of them would accompany Taheb and himself to the door , and he hoped that person would be Nephthys . |
| 27 | A gang of them would meet there , graduating from Meccano and toy farms to risqué games of Dare , illicit cigarettes , speculation about sex . |
| 28 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 29 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
| 30 | So the moment the shout was heard , one of them would rush and then try to provide what was wanted on the instant . |