Example sentences of "when [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On getting there I calculated when I would arrive at the next post , where I promised myself lunch . |
| 2 | You must have wondered sometimes whom and when I would marry ? |
| 3 | I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . |
| 4 | Mike and I had quickly established a routine : our day would start at 4.30am , when I would cook a massive breakfast to last Mike the whole day . |
| 5 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 6 | There was a moment , particularly at tea , when I would sense that our conversation was , so far as he was concerned , due to come to an end . |
| 7 | There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well . |
| 8 | Perhaps I tried too hard when I would have been better off relaxing . ’ |
| 9 | I knew that I would return to this island again when I would have more time to search . |
| 10 | Last term , all through the Coronation festivities , all through the exams , I longed for the holidays when I would see her . |
| 11 | I suspect that it started when I would read my grandmother 's Sunday School prizes and my father 's Sunday School prizes as a small boy . |
| 12 | It 's still interesting , but not like those first few times outside the States when I 'd go sightseeing — y'know , checking everything out . |
| 13 | But I ca n't think of an occasion when I 'd go by myself . |
| 14 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 15 | I never thought the day would come when I 'd feel sorry for the man , but I do . |
| 16 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 17 | Er because the I say photography is er something I 'm gon na ca continue with and if I start buying hot gear then I ca n't use my equipment where and when I 'd want to . |
| 18 | They had been a way of ‘ coasting ’ slightly , when I 'd run out of steam . |
| 19 | Normally I 'd wan na come off when I 'd run outa money and I 'd got nothing else to do 'cos I 've never gone robbin' or anythin' like that . |
| 20 | I think that was why Uncle Hamish had been so delighted when I 'd come to stay with the family , and also — perhaps — why he was in no hurry to help effect a reconciliation between me and my father . |
| 21 | When I 'd come to a safe stop and turned off the motor , I broke down and sobbed . |
| 22 | What I was going to tell him , if he was to come over , take my car there when I 'd have taken this car over , I would have had a car to come back . |
| 23 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 24 | You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish . |
| 25 | When I 'd read it right through , I said : |
| 26 | So when I 'd read them all I thought ‘ I 'll become a professional now ’ ’ . |
| 27 | When I 'd read |
| 28 | There are times ’ — Rose 's face took on the fierce expression of a schoolgirl talking about her most hated teacher — ‘ when I 'd like to brain her with one of her own golf-clubs ! ’ |
| 29 | There might be occasions when we feel that we 'd like MPs to take a particular line , in fact there are occasions when I 'd like to see MPs take a particular line , but we can only ask them , we can not in fact insist that they do take a particular line . |
| 30 | There were times when his grandma or his aunties made trouble for him behind his back , or when someone would comment on his lack of height and Sweetheart would punish him for the embarrassment he caused her . |