Example sentences of "one [noun] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | In approximately one hour she would be getting her chops round the first succulent mouthful of Chicken Thallium . |
| 2 | On one level it would be difficult to argue that the kinds of interventionist policies supported by the report were ever carried out in Brixton : such inner-city areas as this suffered from declining public-sector resources in the mid-1980s . |
| 3 | I mean the one department you would have thought would have been enough . |
| 4 | I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement . |
| 5 | I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement . |
| 6 | Ah , I would n't of imagine for one second he would want to watch , so it might be better if I buy the video and see |
| 7 | I I have only one point I would like to raise , Mrs , and this is whether or not er you are in a position to give me any comments er in relation to the er colony of Great Crested Newts in this pond . |
| 8 | At one point I would have to answer a long-distance phone call , which would keep me out of the room for half an hour . |
| 9 | Erm tt there 's er one point I would like to make , when I , when I made that comment about she 's only the wife , and I 'll just clarify why I said that and this is it 's amus a few years ago some , somebody who was , we were taking a policy out with right was , came to me and was , was talking and making arrangements to , to come and see us and he patronisingly said erm and your husband 'll be there , and I patronisingly said back , and you 'll be bringing your wife , because of the way that he came across to me and I , I mean |
| 10 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |
| 11 | At one point it would have been reasonable to assume that Durham SC were staging a convention for knee and ankle supports as nearly 80 combatants rolled up for battle . |
| 12 | Though that 's the one place I would n't recommend if you want to keep well away from the red tide . ’ |
| 13 | that 's one place you would need it to be washable . |
| 14 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 15 | One moment he would radiate class and talk about acting with insight and intelligence . |
| 16 | Before she had finished one job he would call through the open doorway , ‘ Merrill , come and take a look at this , will you ? ’ |
| 17 | Although the sides of the flysheet moved in high winds I never felt for one minute it would take off . |
| 18 | Just the one night I would 've excused you . |
| 19 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 20 | If she was going to be in the hospital for one night she would need lots of things to read . |
| 21 | and say this group of four here , erm , will get this much shared out between us , so if there were a third as many people , if there was only one person we would n't need so many erm , if there was only one pizza , right , |
| 22 | Tell you there 's one person I would n't miss . |
| 23 | On the spur of the moment , Matilda decided that the one person she would like to confide in was Miss Honey . |
| 24 | If I 'd had just one chance I would n't be where I am today . |
| 25 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 26 | In it , he entrusted his ‘ six sons ’ to the protection of his ‘ most celebrated and very dear friend ’ , adding that they were the products of long and laborious labour , but that he was encouraged by the hope that one day they would prove a source of consolation . |
| 27 | But nobody told the fish over millions of years of evolution that one day they would be prized for their decorative/educational/food value and put in overcrowded conditions ( relatively speaking ) in glass tanks/bowls , or ponds . |
| 28 | ‘ I used to dream that one day they would call out for a 10-year-old from the audience to give them a hand . |
| 29 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 30 | One day we would all be washed away when the bridge fell in . |