Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ And of course you imagine I would stay still and do nothing ? ’ |
| 32 | Then she thought that she would not go at all , that she would stay behind and pretend to be ill . |
| 33 | ’ — A response which would damage rather than increase the influence of the Merkuts in the Khanate , ’ Alexei observed . |
| 34 | Firstly , it could be argued that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal prosecution , and the Crown Office would need more if this was to proceed ; and secondly , that there was enough evidence to make it impossible to drop the case , but more was needed to make it substantial . |
| 35 | Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong . |
| 36 | we would update so that we would have current figures in the brochure , yes |
| 37 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 38 | The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared . |
| 39 | Dylan Thomas would act now and then to pay the bills . |
| 40 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |
| 41 | In the end , ten republics — including some that had declared independence — agreed a joint statement which indicated that a loose union would be established based on Russia and the Central Asian republics , and that around it there would be a ‘ common economic space ’ that would include most if not all of the republics that had been part of the USSR . |
| 42 | erm charging also it would include also that half a million pounds charging increased charging severely increased charges for home help care . |
| 43 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 44 | hold would fall apart and he would be parted from William . |
| 45 | I also felt , as I 'm sure everybody does , that the office would fall apart when I left and that nobody would be able to take over my cases , and I worried about what state they would be in when I came back . |
| 46 | Supporters of random breath testing believe these figures would fall dramatically if it was introduced . |
| 47 | And not everyone believes demand would fall significantly if metering were introduced . |
| 48 | In that event , after a brief panic , the price of oil would fall sharply and stockmarkets would celebrate ; the floor for the world economy would move up and into view . |
| 49 | They would not expect the taking of Perth and Scone to be easy , and night would fall long before they could send back to clear out Abernethy and Forteviot , or before they could press on the further twelve miles to Dunkeld . |
| 50 | But the danger was that the pound would fall further than planned , said Mr Payne . |
| 51 | His father was a public relations man for Dr Barnardo 's Homes and would chat away and do all that kind of thing , whereas David was very much like his mother in terms of showing affection . |
| 52 | The Prime Minister argued against him , and when opinion swung heavily in the Chancellor 's favour he indicated that he would resign rather than accept the settlement . |
| 53 | Baldwin returned to London on the Friday , and told his friend Geoffrey Dawson , the editor of The Times , that he would resign immediately and would probably be succeeded by a Conservative/Liberal coalition , possibly led by Asquith , in which he , Baldwin , might well participate . |
| 54 | Wandjina or Vandjina would translate then as ‘ an initiated wise one ’ , a ‘ serpent ’ or spiritual instructor , and comply with the Aboriginal tradition concerning the Wandjina . |
| 55 | ‘ You would know immediately if you heard a Delta song . |
| 56 | That way , they would know exactly where they were , and this time , if they turned right , then right again , they would be on course for the station . |
| 57 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 58 | Filippo would know better than me if either of them have been here . ’ |
| 59 | They would know more when they had the report from Ballistics . |
| 60 | Castro claimed that the country would survive even if " surrounded by an ocean of capitalism " . |