Example sentences of "they would [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew they would finish up in rabbit pie . |
| 2 | there 's all those people who have the same pay , that at the end of the year they would end up with different amounts because people would manage money differently |
| 3 | Sometimes the German fighters followed the bombers back to their bases , and then when they saw the flare path light up for a few brief moments to guide the homecoming aircraft down , they would open up with their guns . |
| 4 | There were narrow high windows , far above them ; Fenella thought they would open on to rooms at a higher level than the ground . |
| 5 | The Jags looked as though they would hold out until half time but barely two minutes before the break they conceded a free kick just outside the box . |
| 6 | Oh they would match up with it yeah , yeah well I , okay then if you want |
| 7 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 8 | Reginald Bray , who was associated with the settlement movement in Camberwell , even seemed to doubt whether the youths needed to sleep , describing in 1904 how they would stay out on the streets ‘ until it is dark , and often in summer until dawn begins to break … the street and not the house ought probably to be regarded as the home ’ . |
| 9 | Once locked on to a heartbeat pattern , they would whizz around like fireflies until they found the precise biosignal that would allow them to explode . |
| 10 | If they did lose sight of the coast , they would watch out for birds and clouds because they knew that birds flew near land and that clouds formed over land . |
| 11 | There would be a rise of some 20,000 in the number of retail jobs — because more small shopkeepers could make ends meet — but shopworkers ' average annual wages would fall by £170 , for they would miss out on higher Sunday pay-rates . |
| 12 | The superplane — to be partly built in Britain — is under threat after the Germans signalled they would pull out on grounds of cost . |
| 13 | Relief organizations were reported to have said that they would pull out of Somalia while any such deployment took place . |
| 14 | ‘ They would break in in a trice , while you were putting fresh shot in your fowling gun , and cut us into mincemeat . |
| 15 | After the show they would stroll back to their apartments and on the way visit the drugstores for a sarsaparilla or an ice cream soda . |
| 16 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 17 | Sales estimated at many thousands of pounds are believed to have been lost and insurance companies were being consulted to see if they would pay out for loss of business . |
| 18 | And erm that would carry on until such times as when the foreman or whoever would deem them fit to be a squad that could carry out er a heavier job if you want put it that way , where they would progress on to heavier plates etcetera , and do watertight work . |
| 19 | He knew that by-and-by , when they were ripe , they would drop down into the ground ; there they would keep soft and warm for a while , then they would grow into more plants , with seeds , so there would always be plants on the earth … |
| 20 | They would sit out in their deckchairs in brilliant sunshine , surveying snow-covered range after magnificent snow-covered range , and while they took refreshment , take snapshots of one another , and chatter about the delights of a winter sports holiday in the Savoy Alps , the more energetic would be trudging up from below on seal skins or swooping by from above demonstrating their skill . |
| 21 | Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . ) |
| 22 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 23 | They thought then that they would set out as an army and conquer the rest of the land and rule over it ; that was their mission . |
| 24 | Presumably , they would set out on one course of action , receive a consultants ' report which would blow them off their course , the journalists would then be summoned to Luigi 's restaurant and policy would once again be changed . |
| 25 | whether they would go on with the scheme or with a part of it , having the public offices in a well-devised and properly-arranged manner , all connected with each other , instead of being , as now , disconnected . |
| 26 | He said that while some of the pupils may have only experimented with drugs , there was always the worry that they would go on to try other , harder drugs . |
| 27 | so they would go up to fifth |
| 28 | He hoped fervently that they would go back to Florence and had dropped several hints in the hope of getting this information out of them , but the Captain was always concentrating on the job in hand as if nothing else mattered and the magistrate only smiled and nodded distractedly , his mind apparently elsewhere . |
| 29 | He would drag that bloody friar from his stars and they would go back to the Springall mansion and this time demand answers to their questions . |
| 30 | They would go back to Paris to the beautiful house , but she would never stop being grateful for the farm in the woods , because here she had found her father and here she had found Alain . |