Example sentences of "[vb past] and [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the sea struck it it was terrific you know the whole tower trembled and you 'd think a giant got a hold of her and shook the whole thing up . |
| 2 | I tried and I would have succeeded . |
| 3 | She waited for some minutes on a platform , a train came and she would have got into it if that had been possible . |
| 4 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 5 | She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and … |
| 6 | He blanched and I would chill and bag them and put them in the freezer . |
| 7 | It was a battle of weight versus cost , a battle which , to my husband 's dismay , I usually lost and we would have to pay over the odds to have my cases stowed in the hold of the Jumbo . |
| 8 | The SI thought you just had to show how the nightmare worked and everyone would wake up . |
| 9 | Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it . |
| 10 | It seemed as if he would answer it before it rang and we 'd arrange to go out . ’ |
| 11 | You know our our putting up the pistons more or less a which is we had a big of er Tommy would know what I meant and I would know what he meant . |
| 12 | It 's pretty certain it was someone she knew and she 'd have let him — or her — in anyway . ’ |
| 13 | and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so . |
| 14 | Naturally , the other people appeared and something would crop up which made me Plan to give their adventures an airing in a future book . |
| 15 | Abie was no youngster any more , but that much he had and he would accept any task he was given — eagerly and gratefully . |
| 16 | If you made it a little more difficult for through traffic to go through Harrogate , that would encourage traffic to divert to whichever relief road that you had and it would achieve an environmental objective at relatively little cost . |
| 17 | " It took up too much space Malcolm said and nothing would grow near it . " |
| 18 | He said well he used to go and he 'd sort of look up at it , and he 'd sort of think about how he was gon na put it in there he said then he 'd be going like this then he 'd sort of get hold of the other hand he said and he 'd put it in like that and these other old boys are going like this with full hands you know ? |
| 19 | He said you 'd ne , I used to say to you get on with your work he said and you 'd have a pencil in your mouth he said and you 'd be gazing out the window . |
| 20 | I said , but if you 're willing to sacrifice to keep all them lot happy I said and you 'd call most |
| 21 | So after that I just lay there and let him do what he wanted and he would complain about that too . |