Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [coord] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " 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 | Nothing would do but we must go out on the river . |
| 8 | Yeah certainly I would do but I must admit I do n't really like er giving people 's phone numbers out , I do n't know how he 'd react to , you know , somebody ringing him up and |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 13 | This is intuitively what we would expect and we would say that it was due to a lack of sleep . |
| 14 | Er for instance , he would get a message the phone would ring and he would answer it . |
| 15 | We did n't really need to cut it up into so many small pieces i would work but we 'd get two of these each cos we 've got twelve little pieces now and there are only six of us to share it out so we 'd say , Oh well have er we 'll we 'll have two pieces each two twelfths . |
| 16 | Policemen would remember but you might forget , obvious thing he was white |
| 17 | It would sink and we 'd have a hell of a time getting out . |
| 18 | This distinction between what would happen and what might happen is crucial for what follows . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well , she would go and she would ignore him . |
| 25 | Of course they would escape and they would rescue Nuadu . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |