Example sentences of "would go [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As soon as the Bundesbank announced at 2pm that its discount rate would go up to 6 per cent and its Lombard emergency funding rate to 8 per cent , the Bank of England pushed up the base lending rate of British banks to 15 per cent , the highest for eight years .
2 Therefore the single pension would go up by £3.30 and that for married couples by £5.30 .
3 The lights would go up and they would serve tea .
4 And when , as often happened , the screen began to yellow and darken , the cry would go up from the front rows : ‘ Purra nother bob in Len ! ’
5 ‘ I thought that we would go up the Television Tower and see the view , then go to the museums , especially the Pergamon , then the Palace of the Republic , then … . ’
6 Ministers however were not at fault because ‘ nobody could tell that the stock market would go up 150 points since we priced the shares .
7 Reports that electricity charges would go up by 13% in April set off a furore in the press .
8 Take away China 's MFN , and American tariffs on these goods would go up as much as tenfold .
9 His taxes would go up dramatically .
10 His top rate would go up from 40 to 59 per cent .
11 Under Labour his top tax rate would jump from 40 to 49 per cent , and his overall tax bill would go up by about £1,080 a year , essentially because of increased national insurance .
12 But if growth were downgraded , the PSBR would go up very quickly indeed . ’
13 In the North Sea , it is already clear that fish stocks would increase — and therefore catches would go up — if fishing was greatly reduced .
14 Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way .
15 But then it would go back to the usual music , the old pictures would go up again and it would be back to the black paintwork .
16 He would go up in the lift .
17 They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next .
18 A. T. If you wanted to have a smoke — we used to have smokes : we were n't angels by any means — you had to get into a shop doorway , put your cigarette in your mouth , strike a match , shield it with your hand , and then blow the match out and then your hand would go up your sleeve .
19 Doubt whether they would go up any further than Sharpness though , ’ he had explained .
20 Numbers tell it simply : total government spending would go up by $43 300 million , to a total of $848 500 million .
21 At various intervals a shout would go up , a path would be cleared down the middle of the field and a horse would come galloping through the crowd , its bareback rider putting it through its paces .
22 BOLA originally estimated that turnover would go up by 10 per cent if the current 6.30pm closing time were lifted , but Kelly believes the survey makes that figure look pessimistic .
23 He would go up to his desk , work there shredding paper , come down and in no time rush up again to check on some figures and return bringing more paperwork with him .
24 They fear that the cost of transport would go up , making life on their windswept islands even more expensive ( the same basket of goods costs £52.53 in Barra but £46.77 in Aberdeen ) .
25 This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires .
26 She would go up , join them in their long comfortable evening , their food .
27 Alice said she would go up there with him , but first of all she must quickly ring Electricity .
28 It was the beginning of these automatics , you 've seen these photos on the , on the television where these welders come down and they go in like this , well these was the beginning of that sort of thing because it was worked with a motor and a cam which er er the cam went round and it 'd lift the arm up and when it was went past the , the knuckle it 'd drop down and the speed you them out or the speed you sent them out how fast the arm would go up and down , and that was stitch welding .
29 Building societies themselves always reckoned that , over time , prices would go up in line with people 's incomes — which govern how much they can spend .
30 But if permanent secretaries were dismissed or persuaded to retire en masse , then the cry would go up that the new ministers were engaging in a new and improper extension of patronage .
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