Example sentences of "[conj] they would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the alarm was given , the animals would be driven into the ground floor of the Pele Tower , the local families would ascend a ladder to the first floor , the women and children climbing again to the bower above and the men to the roof , where they would repulse the invaders . |
| 2 | Where they would land on the southern bank of the Tay was a spit of fine , shoaling sand lifting to watery meadows . |
| 3 | ‘ One of the cruellest had a girlfriend who had many friends involved in the struggle against the regime and he would go with her to cafes , where they would sing songs against the dictatorship . ’ |
| 4 | As well as challenging the justification for piecemeal projects at a local level , especially where they would affect designated landscapes , we believe we need to develop a strategic overview of transport policy in Wales , questioning the present approach and proposing less environmentally damaging alternatives . |
| 5 | He found the animals to have a marked preference for woodland borders where they would build their communal nests . |
| 6 | It was the custom in Egypt , on the Friday after a body had been interred , for the women of the family to visit the tomb , where they would break a palm branch over the grave and distribute cakes and bread to the poor . |
| 7 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 8 | The ‘ broth ’ were all out in the park , where they would remain until tea time , and Patsy was over with a boy called Ed , who had befriended Patsy at school . |
| 9 | This was chiefly at the behest of the Home Office who , according to Dorothy Hardisty , ‘ urged that in their own interest [ Jewish children ] should not all be placed in cities like London or Leeds where they would form a conspicuous Jewish enclave ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I had arranged with Sister Stevens that on the next occasion that Len presented with either a hangover or a stomach upset I would refer him to the occupational health centre where they would suggest counselling , as I believed Len was becoming a danger to himself and everyone else . ’ |
| 11 | Briefly , this trade consisted of large factory ships or latterly , freezer trawlers , lying in the more sheltered anchorages around the coasts of the UK where they would load fresh herring and mackerel from British fishing vessels directly arrived from their fishing grounds . |
| 12 | In the week before the premiere , John , out on tour with the company , sent several telegrams there , asking Hanns about tickets for the performance ( ‘ two plus one if possible ’ ) , about where he would stay , where they would meet and , on the day before the performance , ‘ Please buy gift for dressmaker ’ . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , Franco agreed that the Italians could spearhead the attack on Madrid from Guadalajara , as part of an ambitious Italian plan to tighten the circle round the capital by advancing in a south westerly direction towards Alcalá de Henares , where they would meet up with Spanish troops marching north-eastwards from the Jarama , across the Madrid–Valencia road . |
| 14 | For example , the deployment of explosive rats where they would do the most good , or harm ( in wartime the two may be synonymous ) was aided by accompanying them by leaflets saying that the British were delivering rats infected with bubonic plague and the best thing to do with them , if found , was to throw them into a furnace . |
| 15 | probably where they would go for erm |
| 16 | Kubrick , who was personally in charge of special photographic effects as well as of the film overall ( similarly Hyams was , unusually , director of photography on his own movie ) , deliberately chose old-fashioned in-camera techniques where they would work . |
| 17 | She rode light in the water despite the extra armour-plate around her bridge and forming fences amidships to protect her commando landing parties where they would crouch on her final run but she was carrying a minimum of fuel and water and her guns were gone except for a 12-pounder forward and oerlikons on the bridge wings . |
| 18 | I must leave it to economists to say how much they have learnt from his account , or where they would disagree with it . |
| 19 | That is what convinces me where they would like to take us . |
| 20 | They told him to ignore it and to remain at home where they would join him for the evening . |
| 21 | Commanders were selected at top level of course , after which they were invited to attend at HQ where they would sift through the applications from prospective crew members , discuss them with the administrating Inspector and eventually come to a mutual agreement on the crewing of each cutter for the following year . |
| 22 | It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see . |
| 23 | In the 18th century , examples were always set where they would have the greatest effect on the most travellers . |
| 24 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 25 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd where they would have had access to MS-DOS . |
| 26 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation . |
| 27 | She had seen their craft land only minutes earlier and had placed herself deliberately here where they would have to pass her . |
| 28 | They were shown to a little table , where they would have to sit side by side . |
| 29 | It had a bright plastic deep-fried atmosphere and menu but the alternative as Maxim had pointed out was a long slow dinner at some hotel where they would have made themselves conspicuous by not , repeat not , ordering a couple of bottles of wine . |
| 30 | They tried in vain to get the men transferred to a German Prisoner of War camp , where they would have been well treated . |