Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] we would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Mrs Howard asked for an escort , I naturally assumed we would assign her one of our own people . |
| 2 | There was a pause , and he obviously thought we would go . |
| 3 | Brigitte is having a party and when I knew you were here I naturally said we would go . ’ |
| 4 | India in their home country are very tough and I always thought we would have a difficult task here . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ We always knew we would have to deal with this at some stage — maybe in 20 or 30 years time — but the damage caused over a couple of nights during January and February was much worse than we ever anticipated . ’ |
| 6 | As he never married and had no relations apart from us and one other person , my father always hoped we would inherit uncle John 's money . |
| 7 | ‘ As students at Edinburgh College of Art , we always said we would buy a castle and do it up , but when it came around to it most of them had been restored , but Lachlan knew of Ballone Castle near Portmahomack which was still derelict and persuaded the farmer to sell it . ’ |
| 8 | Had we put in the stop where I originally proposed we would run the risk of pedestrians stumbling on the ‘ step ’ . |
| 9 | I never thought we would get anything like that sum , but the nature of the charity obviously struck home . |
| 10 | ‘ After Gavin slotted over those first three kicks we never thought we would lose , ’ said the hooker . |