Example sentences of "' [noun sg] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |
| 2 | Mr Chairman I would like to move the resolution in standing in the Conservatives ' name I would say that I would hope that erm the other side would er join with us in voting that through and certainly have no problem with the relevant resolution that Mr put forward . |
| 3 | One of the greatest players ever to put on a Spurs ' jersey I would think . |
| 4 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 5 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 6 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 7 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 8 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 9 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
| 10 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 11 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 12 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 13 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |