Example sentences of "they would [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was now attempted , but I got nowhere near finding out , because none of them would estimate over the phone . |
| 2 | To answer them would go beyond the scope of this book . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over . |
| 6 | ‘ Shelley was elevated to the Bible this morning , ’ one of them would whisper to the other , but they were fond of Mabel and would never hurt her . |
| 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 | They derive their strength from the realization that not to abide by them would make for an unworkable constitution . |
| 9 | Hence a hereditary mechanism which transmitted them would result in continued degeneration . |
| 10 | But none of them would do for today . |
| 11 | Many pioneers of women 's education made it quite clear that they did not accept Emily Davies ' view that girls might be trained in the same way as boys , and argued that they should be given an opportunity , by way of , for example , domestic science classes , to prepare for the lives a majority of them would lead as wives and mothers . |
| 12 | Both sides agree that these behaviours lead to much if not most of the premature mortality as well as chronic morbidity of adults today , and that a reduction in them would lead to reduced mortality and an enhanced quality of life . |
| 13 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |
| 14 | But the attempt to hold them would lead to an even bigger crisis between president and legislature . |
| 15 | Smeed went on to argue that if drivers were charged for the delays they impose on one another , some of them would travel at different times , by different means or to different places — and that time wasted by everyone in jams would be reduced . |
| 16 | The lads would stay put and do their washing , though one of them would drive into town at lunch-time and bring me back if I had not already managed to get a lift back myself . |
| 17 | Half of them would gain at least £10 a week and another quarter at least £20 a week . |
| 18 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 19 | Even if an idealised model of the two kinds of society could be constructed , it is apparent that the nature of communication in each of them would have to be less strongly differentiated than Goody is claiming . |
| 20 | In order that the hypothetical choice of loans offered to them would have at least some roots in people 's own experience , the size of the loan was in each case matched to the size of loan which people said they would consider taking out in practice . |
| 21 | but I thought to myself , thirty youngest being concerned in one big go , every , one of them would have at least four |
| 22 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 23 | She knew what results in work a given number of them would produce in a given space of time . |
| 24 | Indeed one of them would insist on crossing the road rather than walk past the animal . |
| 25 | One or the other of them would insist on having you to stay . |
| 26 | Not to be aware of the differences of demand and not to pay heed to them would amount to disregarding the purposes and moral cost of adapting to change . |
| 27 | Not that he supposed either of them would jump at him , since neither was short of admirers . |
| 28 | They dumped his body outside the Hizbollah 's offices with a note saying that the rest of them would die in a similar fashion if the three diplomats were not released . |
| 29 | Together they had three children , all of them would die in the fire . |
| 30 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |