Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 2 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 3 | Is not it a fact that the Labour party would throw out of the window all the grant-maintained schools and return them to the control of its friends in the town halls ? |
| 4 | Yet this would bump up against the western world 's self-serving policy of subsidised farming , which explains a lot of its enthusiasm for shipping grain to Africa . |
| 5 | He was too tired for work but felt he must continue otherwise he would think back to Cranston 's words about Benedicta . |
| 6 | When he had finished his meal , when he had collected his guard from the hard chair by the entrance , then he would stride back to the Haifa Street Housing Project , and he would chew on the pistachio nuts that were loose in his trouser pocket , and he would write to his mother . |
| 7 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 8 | Then , early on 14 August , stalls selling souvenirs , all kinds of religious objects , sweets , primitive toys , salamis and cheese would spring up in the approaches to the Santuario . |
| 9 | In spite of his powerful torch , the darkness seemed to close in on him and he felt a weird , evil presence as if something would spring out from between the silent waggons and overpower him . |
| 10 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 11 | The Agriculture Departments should encourage the protection and rehabilitation ( thinning , regeneration or replanting , removal of aliens ) of existing on-farm broadleaved woods with grants which would cover up to 70% of scheme costs including fencing . |
| 12 | On the other hand , a price lower than this would hasten the decay of the falling firms , and slacken the growth of the rising firms ; and on the whole diminish production : and a rise or fall of price would affect in like manner though perhaps not in an equal degree those great joint-stock companies which often stagnate , but seldom die . |
| 13 | She would rush up to me with , ‘ Gus is in Syria ! |
| 14 | Every day after school I would rush round to her house to see how he was getting on and take a turn at feeding him . |
| 15 | The water , he concludes , would rush out into the Atlantic ; the coasts of England and France would totter , shift and reunite ; the Channel would cease to exist . |
| 16 | After throwing the plates on the table , she would rush out into the garden in an attempt to cool down . |
| 17 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 18 | As soon as a key was inserted it rang a loud alarm bell and palace guards would rush in with drawn swords . |
| 19 | Although the sustained overall economic growth over the years 1987-89 brought the country to the verge of being given NIC ( newly industrialized country ) status , early forecasts predicted that gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth would slow down in 1990 to around 6.5 per cent , from an estimated 7.3-7.5 per cent in 1989 and from 8.7 per cent in 1988 . |
| 20 | Philip went to see him twice a day , encouraged by Claudia , who hoped the child would make up to him for Eileen . |
| 21 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 22 | The love nest he had conjured out of so little would make up for all her pain . |
| 23 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 24 | Succeeding in this would make up for previous frustration in attempts to follow Bowen . |
| 25 | A pine or oak refectory table , forming an island unit in the middle of the room , would make up for this . |
| 26 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 27 | I 'd have thought any normal thief would make off with the whole bag . |
| 28 | A finance director in a medium-sized company would earn up to £75,000 , an internal auditor up to £60,000 and a tax specialist up to £70,000 . |
| 29 | Hardly had her damson-dripping fingers scooped a long white furrow from her thigh to her breast before the blackness would swirl back over it . |
| 30 | It involved thrusting a lighted taper into little glass jars and applying them in great haste to Jean-Claude 's back , which would bubble up under them in balloons of skin . |