Example sentences of "they would [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them would know until his death , for instance , that he had a godson . |
| 2 | they would decide whether they want cheques which . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was because her few visits to Sleightholmedale had been fleeting or was it perhaps , George wondered , because she knew how overwhelmed they would feel if they knew the truth . |
| 4 | How do you think they would feel if our findings were wrong ? |
| 5 | Those who were not incontinent ( 3584 ) were asked what they thought they would do and how they would feel if they were incontinent . |
| 6 | ‘ Drivers who persistently drive over the limit should think how they would feel if a speeding motorist kills one of their loved ones ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Drivers who persistently drive over the limit should think how they would feel if a speeding motorist kills one of their loved ones . ’ |
| 8 | well for god 's sake , I mean I often wonder about people who make noise like this how they would feel if we did do the same , but I still say because we 've done our polystyrene insulation she ca n't hear us , it 's worked in the reverse ai n't it ? |
| 9 | And the noise they would make as well — it was driving me crazy . |
| 10 | Army officers described the deployment as " very short-term " , but stressed that they would remain as long as they were needed . |
| 11 | The ‘ broth ’ were all out in the park , where they would remain until tea time , and Patsy was over with a boy called Ed , who had befriended Patsy at school . |
| 12 | First , insofar as price inflation ( and the expectation of price inflation ) does prompt even users of costlier forms of credit to buy now on credit — as a means of avoiding the price rises they would face if they saved up instead , it is misleading them . |
| 13 | The bank was hard , they said they would foreclose if things did n't improve shortly . |
| 14 | She had made the mistake of assuming they would think as she did . |
| 15 | Such was the speculation that Hurd and Major — Thatcher 's two nominators for the contest — were obliged to issue a joint statement insisting that they would not stand against Mrs Thatcher in a second ballot , but this all too clearly left open the possibility that they would stand if she were out of the contest . |
| 16 | The Yek was dressed in silver silks so fine that Rostov thought that they would bruise if anything brushed against them . |
| 17 | I had figures which actually showed what people were watching what they would do if you gave them five to seven more hours of spare time a week , all the things they would like to learn about that they have n't already learned about . |
| 18 | Ask them what they would do if they did know the answers . |
| 19 | Ask them what they would do if they were Superman or Superwoman . |
| 20 | I wrote to my home social services and asked them what they would do if I moved from residential care into a home of my own . |
| 21 | God knows what they would do if they caught you detecting on a mountain bike ! |
| 22 | For instance , the panel members in the YPLL study were asked to respond to a number of statements about what they would do if they had a problem . |
| 23 | Or that they would do as Allen had done already , dog the footsteps of the verderers , shadowing them from the cover of the forest , until they fell in with some outlaws . |
| 24 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 25 | In spite of these small brushes , they spent a very happy leave , planning all that they would do when peace came , and making love passionately every night . |
| 26 | It 's quite a shortsighted policy , if you look at the er , because , if you erm , if you introduce subsidies to actually protect the domestic industry then that 's often going to cause retaliation from other countries and therefore effectively sealing off any trade , any effective trade at all , and consequently because there 's no competitive pressure on the domestic industries , they 're not going to feel the need to make themselves more productive , which they would do when there was competition . |
| 27 | What actually happened was that they would disappear before you got there . |
| 28 | Just waiting for the flash line to ring , not even knowing whether the kidnappers would have heard the radio show at all , or how they would react if they had , made Sam nauseous from stress . |
| 29 | How do you think they would react if I suddenly announced that the new man in my life is the man who ditched my sister five years ago ? ’ |
| 30 | A second-hand car which is not safe to be driven on the road ( for example because the brakes are in such a state that they would fail if the driver had to carry out an emergency stop ) is clearly not of merchantable quality , Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 C.A. ) — unless of course the car was only sold for scrap . |