Example sentences of "it would [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.

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1 It would still hiss and make noise , but the energy and power were gone ; sometimes it would even shrink and contract within itself .
2 So I waited four days , watching the weather , praying that it would n't change and when the night arrived to fish again , and the conditions were identical to that wonderful night four moons ago , I felt like I was eight years old again on Christmas eve .
3 Everything looks so high from here , and I 'm all squashed and thin like I 'm paper and people can walk over me and it would n't hurt and they would n't know I was there .
4 But no sound came from inside the house ant the lights , he 'd already checked were all off He eased the door right open so it would n't swing and slam .
5 Such a policy if we could be forced to accept it would doubtless hasten and simplify Soviet control over the entire Peninsula .
6 Rain hoped it would not happen and they reached the coffee before it did .
7 Instead of the UK being especially good at manufacturing , say , chemicals and bad at producing food , it would both import and export chemicals and food as a multitude of purchasers and sellers made their decisions as ‘ world citizens ’ .
8 On nights like this all Fontanellato was out , defying the curfew , and we all prayed that it would soon end and prayed for the people who lived there .
9 It would further naturalise and legitimise the evolving skeletal form of Palestinian independence .
10 It would still hiss and make noise , but the energy and power were gone ; sometimes it would even shrink and contract within itself .
11 With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do .
12 They have already had many changes of home in their comparatively short lives and it would unquestionably confuse and disturb them to leave England now only to return again in a matter of months should the Australian Family Court consider it right that they should make their home here .
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