Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood , hearing the picks ring on the rock and watching the spoil fly from three hundred shovels , and he would realize that perhaps , even at that very moment , a papermaker in some small East End papermill was drying the very sheet on which Chambers or someone would write the final , damning words , ‘ insufficient funds . ’ |
| 2 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 3 | This would end with a " Hallelujah " wind-up , or glory march where someone would take the flag and lead a march round the hall to songs of victory and praise . |
| 4 | So that if somebody come in to call , they 'd pull this thing and then Mr or somebody would open the the sliding door and you see . |
| 5 | For example the task could be to produce a news item which would amuse the audience , or which would surprise the audience , or which would make them very happy . |
| 6 | She could imagine it all back at Les Hiboux — was already planning out loud where she would place the various pieces , while Rohan and Monsieur Pallon exchanged indulgent glances , and settled the details of how and where it was all to be delivered . |
| 7 | After a hearty cooked breakfast the next morning , Meryl hurried to the hall to find a good seat where she would get the best out of the professor 's lecture . |
| 8 | Sloane introduced her to Isaac Rand , the Demonstrator of Plants at the Physic Garden , who advised her to live near it where she would find the plants needed and where she would certainly have met Miller and Ehret . |
| 9 | The place of the original utterance is hardly relevant but where you would encounter the text is . |
| 10 | In all cases , after stating the purpose of the report , the head teacher needs to set out clearly the decision he or she would advise the governors to take . |
| 11 | The three used to compete with each other to see who could steal the best clothes or who would take the biggest risk . |
| 12 | Our destination was to be Cliff College in the Peat District , where we would spend the next few days . |
| 13 | and he had like a shooter thing that would er , erm a bolt or something would shoot the balls out |
| 14 | When the alarm was given , the animals would be driven into the ground floor of the Pele Tower , the local families would ascend a ladder to the first floor , the women and children climbing again to the bower above and the men to the roof , where they would repulse the invaders . |
| 15 | For example , the deployment of explosive rats where they would do the most good , or harm ( in wartime the two may be synonymous ) was aided by accompanying them by leaflets saying that the British were delivering rats infected with bubonic plague and the best thing to do with them , if found , was to throw them into a furnace . |
| 16 | In the 18th century , examples were always set where they would have the greatest effect on the most travellers . |
| 17 | Any company that 's trying to sell computers is only too pleased to give demonstrations , and either you would go to their showroom , where they 've got it all set up , erm or they would bring the , the equipment in to you . |
| 18 | Or they would mention the role Bell 's XS–1 played on that historic day in October , 1947 when the ‘ sound barrier ’ was finally conquered . |
| 19 | Transfer may be justified in the child 's interests , for example , where it would enable the case to be heard in a court closer to the child 's home . |
| 20 | It broke in the tabloids first , where it would do the most damage . |
| 21 | I would be fed into the police computer , where it would join the details already stored by the hundreds of other crossings we had made . |
| 22 | He said I must do his bidding , or he would reveal the falsehood and have me imprisoned for fraud . |
| 23 | This child had to be born , and soon , or he would lose the pair of them . |
| 24 | But he would not press too vehemently or he would lose the support of the Prince . |
| 25 | AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side . |
| 26 | It seemed certain that nothing would alter the situation . |
| 27 | This assumption — that nothing would persuade the Chamberlain Government to make an alliance with the Soviet Union — was axiomatic on the left . |
| 28 | Antoinette married Louis , Léonie explained : so that everyone would think the baby was his . |
| 29 | Except I would say the winders are worse off cos they 're doing three shifts . |
| 30 | In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction … |