Example sentences of "they would [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on horseback they would feel so much safer . |
| 2 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 3 | It might seem obvious that if weak points are going to evolve in the tails of lizards they would do so between the vertebrae . |
| 4 | While progressive Labour councils declared their intentions to address the expectations of women , of black people and disabled people , it was by no means clear that they would do so in relation to lesbians and gays . |
| 5 | However , there would be no guarantee that they would do so — they might use the money for additional spending on services . |
| 6 | When non-Europeans revolted against colonial rule , they would do so with the slogans of the Rights of Man and national self-determination on their lips . |
| 7 | They would do so because they receive convergent input from cells at the lower levels of the system that represent the defining properties of that object . |
| 8 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 9 | Since most women did marry , most teenage girls assumed that they would do so and that they would give up work then . |
| 10 | Indeed , they would do so , if only they had the time or resources or if the entire teaching staff could agree to abandon lectures simultaneously . |
| 11 | It was particularly odd as Frank was chained in the middle of the trio so when Terry and Tom were talking they would do so over Frank 's head , almost as if he was n't there . |
| 12 | If the citizens of Sheffield needed to go to Walsall , I am sure that they would do so , but they need look only to their own trust to see the remarkable progress already made . |
| 13 | Despite this stance and the pressure from the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd to respond positively to de Klerk 's announcement , however , EC Foreign Ministers decided in Brussels on Feb. 4 not to ease sanctions until " legislative action was taken " in South Africa , apparently meaning that they would do so as soon as the legislation was tabled . |
| 14 | These girls had actually been requested to have a conversation in " Jamaican " , and had said that they would do so . |
| 15 | They were not supposed to play a part in managing them , but it soon became clear that they would do so . |
| 16 | If rates were to move up or down they would do so in both markets . |
| 17 | To pick and choose which plants they were going to eat would put them at a disadvantage since they would waste so much time looking for food , rather than eating it . |
| 18 | For blankets they would send so much wool away and you got blankets . |
| 19 | Unprotected in the desert , they would lose so much water by evaporation that they would quickly die of desiccation . |
| 20 | They would become so hooked on their daily interaction with their licensed dealer that they would ring up and ask for job interviews , often with the connivance of their own dealers . |
| 21 | The services were cut so drastically that at the time no one in their right mind would have forecast that they would become so bad . |