Example sentences of "and [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SI thought you just had to show how the nightmare worked and everyone would wake up . |
| 2 | Maybe they would remake Anna Karenina when she was an actress , and everyone would be amazed that such a young girl could project such depths of emotion and hail her as the new Garbo . |
| 3 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 4 | Rehearsals were held in Gedge 's bedroom where he would play a toy electric organ and everyone would take a turn drumming on a Smash tin lid . |
| 5 | Other income came from the calves we had to spare and everyone would lose quite a bit of sleep when the cows were calving since the event would invariably happen in the middle of the night and it was often necessary to play midwife in case of complications . |
| 6 | The kitchen was draughty but warm and everyone would be pulled close to the fire , enjoying a moment 's rest before preparing the evening meal . |
| 7 | Tonight the theme was an anonymous — but not a fancy-dress — ball ; no names would be used and everyone would be masked . |
| 8 | If I talked too much at first or laughed at something , it broke the spell and everyone would start talking to me . |
| 9 | She would talk loudly and at length and everyone would have to listen to her or they 'd get no food . |
| 10 | We 'd walk into that Church Hall , and everyone would gasp . |
| 11 | ‘ Not then , no , because the scheme we 'd concocted was that my ‘ husband ’ was a soldier , who 'd died abroad , and everyone would , hopefully , have continued to believe it , if Phena had n't flounced off to England to discover her roots ! |
| 12 | Or perhaps she would paint a picture of Oliver and it would be hung in the National Gallery and everyone would come and look at it and weep because it was so beautiful . |
| 13 | Angy had been stabbed in the throat and that 's exactly what he 'd done to her portrait … he was afraid that would all come out and everyone would think he 'd done it . ’ |
| 14 | The Czar was going to visit the wards at 10 a.m. next day and everyone would get a medal . |
| 15 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 16 | And everyone would be looking for Elaine Webb , who had had only one baby , not Lilian Parsons , who was in the records of Thorn House , and had had twins . |
| 17 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 18 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 19 | It might be necessary but it was not fun , and nothing would ever be fun again . |
| 20 | It is not meant to be an exclusive list , and nothing would please us more than to hear from readers about others — or their shortcomings , if the case deserved it . |
| 21 | And nothing would detain her . |
| 22 | But the publicity machine had come into operation and nothing would stop it . |
| 23 | It was like that game where you were blindfolded and spun round , and then you had to try and touch someone , Creed and the Skull , they were close one moment , then they were dancing out of reach , and nothing would sound like anything when he played it back , it would sound like interference , nonsense , silence , but he stayed with it , trips to the bathroom to sluice his nose and throat , more trips to replace the tapes , because he sensed they were leading up to something , there was something at the end of this rainbow of places , not gold but something . |
| 24 | It did n't take much to persuade her to come and nothing would have prevented me from seeing precisely what it was that had turned my schoolfriend into what the Daily Express called ‘ a phenomena ’ . |
| 25 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |
| 26 | On examination , the car had been cut badly and now instead of a neat hole which the teeth of the cog could grab , the hole was broken and nothing would make the machine accept this card . |
| 27 | He thought everything was easy to those who believed ; and nothing would persuade him that it was not so . |
| 28 | Such a clause would affect virtually every impoverished museum in Russia , and nothing would be able to prevent their closure . |
| 29 | down his trouser-leg and nothing would happen . |
| 30 | What she meant , she told herself , was that no living creature would choose to be a pet , and nothing would opt for imprisonment , and when she went home she 'd feel trapped and , if she did n't know it was happening , she 'd rather be shot — as long as she did n't see the bullet coming . |