Example sentences of "[conj] would [vb infin] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd come down and try to get us to translate his prayers into English , or would turn up and recite Koranic verses he 'd half translated with Mahmoud or one of the other English-speakers . |
| 2 | It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home . |
| 3 | erm In principle it should be possible to be able to speak into a microphone , or to write on a pad , with a pencil , and the computer would be connected to the microphone or the pad and would take in and interpret what you 've done , without having to learn this rather clumsy method of putting things in one letter at a time . |
| 4 | Firelight was now as gentle as a lamb , and would lie down and sleep beside him instead of pacing round her box all night . |
| 5 | I had decided that all my stuff was irretrievably lost ; that I did not want to continue my projected journey but would strike out and do something different — go to Ecuador perhaps and if possible from there into Brazil . |
| 6 | He was being told in no uncertain terms that he could come out of all this as the loving , caring father who would do anything to keep his daughter 's reputation ; who welcomed her choice of husband with open arms ; who would not bow down in the face of adversity , but would rise up and conquer it . |