Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 As a person , you know , I 'd never have any time .
2 It was impossible to evaluate my effectiveness as a role model , facilitator and practical teacher in terms of the time involved , but I was reassured by the fact I had spent 10 per cent of my time formally teaching students — although some nurses would rather spend this time at the bedside .
3 In ordinary circumstances the family contemplating spending a considerable amount of money would probably spend some time shopping around getting quotations .
4 After seeing him , because he thought that once he 'd seen the consultant it would then take some time to get the treatment started , but they must have got themselves over that .
5 He would never forget that time when a corporal had been machine-gunned in an ambush on a country road near Palermo .
6 Churchill in office would never have wasted time in the smoking room without an audience .
7 Lloyd George would never have wasted time there at all , but he might have chosen the Strand Magazine had he been left waiting upon a railway platform .
8 He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls !
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