Example sentences of "would [verb] and [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , they smiled , standing with fingers entwined , bodies touching , and even when he left her the smile would remain and she would save her tears until his train was out of sight , trying not to think of the brave goodbye that might be their last . |
| 2 | Often they would quarrel and he would stay away from the house for a while ; but he was never able to stay away for long . |
| 3 | Presumably , in the hypothesis presented , C would win and he would become Prime Minister . |
| 4 | That without Constance ( even with Constance ) , eventually the bottle would win and he would lose — everything . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ They told me that the worst case scenario was that his brain would swell and he would have to have an operation . |
| 6 | we , we can then come back to the court , erm as , as other orders which we would seek and we would seek an order for costs , erm clearly |
| 7 | Th what Labour would do would be ring fence the money , that 's what Labour would do and I 'll come on to that later if you give me a chance . |
| 8 | If the vote goes in favour , then I will do what I always said I would do and I will prepare to leave the Church of England . |
| 9 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 10 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 11 | This is intuitively what we would expect and we would say that it was due to a lack of sleep . |
| 12 | Er for instance , he would get a message the phone would ring and he would answer it . |
| 13 | It would sink and we 'd have a hell of a time getting out . |
| 14 | This distinction between what would happen and what might happen is crucial for what follows . |
| 15 | I would always be ‘ starting the diet tomorrow ’ and if I ate one thing ‘ out of order ’ , the diet would collapse and I would eat everything in sight until I could hardly move . |
| 16 | This is for no better reason than that few readers of such newspapers would respond and we would get a very low return on our advertising investment . |
| 17 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 18 | If we were sitting in a room and someone came in talking or making a noise , Dawn would panic and it would take me a few minutes to calm her down . |
| 19 | Soon she would go and he would forget all about her , except perhaps for those wry little moments when he would remember her childish temper and smile to himself in his superior way . |
| 20 | Well , she would go and she would ignore him . |
| 21 | Of course they would escape and they would rescue Nuadu . |
| 22 | On chemical weapons , all the principal elements were agreed , the basic position being that sufficient of each country 's stock would be destroyed to leave 5,000 tonnes , production of new weapons would cease and they would join forces to try and secure a global ban on such weapons . |
| 23 | And sometimes it 's just the person or the family would come and they would want I think they used to by these from the shop . |
| 24 | Every morning farmers would come and they would see this claw mark on the neck of these of their sheep and their cows and they were , they were quite worried cos all their sheep and cows were like dying every night ! |
| 25 | They wished their uncle would come and they could vanish into the huge car but no motor could be heard in the direction from which he would come . |
| 26 | Cos you would come and you would buy the ticket from Linda who would give who would give you a Or from if he was here . |
| 27 | Khrushchev may have been perspicacious enough to imagine the day when his turn would come and he would become Special Pensioner Khrushchev . |
| 28 | I 'm not saying that there was n't an expectation that there would be a gradual move in there , and ultimately we would suffer and we would lose that level of grant . |
| 29 | If only her stomach would settle and she could face eating again perhaps she would feel less tired and her nerves less ragged . |
| 30 | ‘ It used to be a tradition that when you drove past a gang of kids they would wave and you would wave back , ’ says Lt Watts . |