Example sentences of "who would [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war the number of readers who would laugh at pictures of seasick passengers , or bosuns getting the better of the second mate , diminished rapidly . |
| 2 | There goes a woman who would dance on her enemy 's grave , he thought , curious and thoughtful . |
| 3 | Ezek. 22.30 — ‘ I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it , but I found none . ’ |
| 4 | One of the many adverse criticisms of Albert Ferrasse and Jacques Fouroux is that , for involved reasons of French rugby politics , they have ostracised the Toulouse club together with such players as Denis Charvet and Eric Bonneval , who would walk on merit into any northern hemisphere XV . |
| 5 | It would be a brave walker who would walk across a fairway , even if there was a public footpath . ’ |
| 6 | Many rational people , who would walk under a ladder without blenching , back superstitiously away from making a will — Joanna Slaughter . |
| 7 | The waits performed the bull tune in the period surrounding the bull festival and were closely associated with the bellman , who would walk around the town between midnight and two in the morning on the days when the waits were not playing . |
| 8 | Seldom in history has a work of fiction had such influence in forming public attitudes and the full fruit of this influence would only be recognized in 1861 : it was Lincoln himself who would refer to the little lady who started the war . |
| 9 | Anyway , he would certainly not discuss the subject with the raffish set who would stoop to street-women . |
| 10 | Yet when it came to negotiation , who would speak to him in the name of France ? |
| 11 | So who would speak for old Shallot ? |
| 12 | The lawyers acting for the parents tried to present themselves as friends , representatives who would speak on behalf of the parents . |
| 13 | Few there are who would speak in favour of cruelty to animals , as thus understood , and I take it that , whatever else our differences might be , at least we all agree that cruelty to other animals is morally vile , and morally vile for the same reasons as cruelty to human children , for example . |
| 14 | The campaign would be conducted at every level : regional offices , media-orientated information-packs , lobbying at national and constituency level , and public appearances of true patriots who would speak against the treaty and its progenitor — an oblique reference to the stricken man in the White House . |
| 15 | But in order to do this , it is necessary to have the backing of a majority of the shareholders who would vote on the issue ( not necessarily a majority of the shareholders ) . |
| 16 | Every time we ventured outdoors , we had to brave the ranks of these dozens of seemingly unoccupied Americans who would sit in lines on the low walls surrounding the house , wolf whistling and just waiting to pick up a girl . |
| 17 | In the middle of the eighteenth century , customs and excise officers had a particularly high profile in the politics of seaport burghs , where many of them were themselves trades voters with a voice in the election of deacons who would sit in the burgh councils . |
| 18 | All I had to do was to train chicks on either methylanthranilate or water and hand them over to Roger , who would disappear into the neurophysiology lab with them and emerge many hours later with reams of paper which he would begin to analyse . |
| 19 | Certainly there are many who would concur with at least the gist of Lieberson 's , and others ' , criticisms but argue that more effort should be directed at improving methods of data collection and analysis to meet these kinds of objections . |
| 20 | So who would arrange for the funeral then ? |
| 21 | Usually de Gaulle would be introduced by André Malraux , who would conclude with the phrase that had preceded de Gaulle 's wartime broadcasts from London : " Honneur et Patrie " . |
| 22 | But Edward had a more substantial motive for planning an invasion of Normandy : his strategy was to take the pressure off Lancaster in Aquitaine by providing a diversion in Normandy and another in Flanders , were Sir Hugh Hastings had been appointed Lieutenant and given the command of Flemish troops who would advance from the north against Philip . |
| 23 | There might be another house foreman want a man who would stand on the house and and they want a checker , so I 'd go all these men for these different ships , that was my job , being chief foreman stevedore . |
| 24 | There had been no Darkness in the stranger , and Hawk recalled that one of the spirit warriors who would stand with the One-Eyed White Girl in the last battle was called the Man Who Rides Alone . |
| 25 | An experienced Substitute Prosecutor who would stand by him if things got tricky … and he had n't always been lucky . |
| 26 | Fabien wanted the vignoble to be run by someone in sympathy with his aims , who would continue with the modernisation process he 'd started , and produce wine of the same quality . |
| 27 | A Communist International would not help , for it would be dominated by the working classes of the colonial countries , who would continue to be colonialist . |
| 28 | This first-hand testimony , delivered with appropriate scholarly documentation , helped restore to the so called ‘ primitive ’ his full humanity and dignity ; it became intellectually inadmissible for tribesmen to be regarded as museum specimens who would remain for ever wayward children of nature and wards of paternalistic colonialism . |
| 29 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 30 | The Place of Safety orders were confirmed on the nine children , who would remain in care in mainland Scotland for several more weeks . |