Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] would [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what I learned of their disappearance at the time , I never believed they would re-surface intact . |
| 2 | In a typically devious climb-down they announced they would bombard the island in future on only the odd dates of the month , as though the rain of shells was a form of parking restriction . |
| 3 | Sally explains : ‘ I designed a cropped pin-stripe jacket which I thought I would sequin but it was too heavy , so I have put bright , luminous shiny pink and purple braiding on to a man 's pin-stripe suit material . |
| 4 | I thought you would Chairman , take it later I see a lot of hands up on the other side . |
| 5 | I thought they would sort of er pass as hedgerowey leaves . |
| 6 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 7 | They told her that if she did they would outcast her . |
| 8 | There was no Madame Eglantine , only a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie , took the package and said he would hand it over to the lady next time she visited the place . |