Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] would [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day of the season she would travel in her carriage and six to Ashdown Park on top of the downs , where she would course for hares with her magnificent greyhounds and walk for twenty-five miles . |
| 2 | By one o'clock he 'd be staggered by the reels of shiny new bureaucratic red tape and return to the hotel fort where we would lunch by the pool , talk , plan , watch , and he would slowly recuperate . |
| 3 | No doubt the table saw him , computed his path across the room , and placed itself just where he would trip over it ! |
| 4 | Er George , the my clients instruction is not phrased very legally , but it 's , let's go for it , so we would sir like to pursue the issue of er our contention is that the outer er northern r route as shown in the structure plan key diagram as it is at present does not meet the need for traffic relief of the A fifty nine A sixty one corridor . |
| 5 | Getting back to the briefing if you would Sergeant . |
| 6 | Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks . |
| 7 | Sir Richard Body , a farmer who has kept pigs himself for many years , explained that he intends to press on with his Private Member 's Bill since it would phase out the sow stalls within five years instead of the Minister 's eight years . |
| 8 | Think of buying flowers in the same way as you would buying fish : always look for fresh , unmarked blooms . |
| 9 | She would only bewilder him quite as much as she would distress him . |
| 10 | He expresses no doubts , knows precisely what is required and will set about the job with the same approach as he would building a house . |