Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not it a fact that the Labour party would throw out of the window all the grant-maintained schools and return them to the control of its friends in the town halls ? |
| 2 | Yet this would bump up against the western world 's self-serving policy of subsidised farming , which explains a lot of its enthusiasm for shipping grain to Africa . |
| 3 | When he had finished his meal , when he had collected his guard from the hard chair by the entrance , then he would stride back to the Haifa Street Housing Project , and he would chew on the pistachio nuts that were loose in his trouser pocket , and he would write to his mother . |
| 4 | Then , early on 14 August , stalls selling souvenirs , all kinds of religious objects , sweets , primitive toys , salamis and cheese would spring up in the approaches to the Santuario . |
| 5 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 6 | The water , he concludes , would rush out into the Atlantic ; the coasts of England and France would totter , shift and reunite ; the Channel would cease to exist . |
| 7 | After throwing the plates on the table , she would rush out into the garden in an attempt to cool down . |
| 8 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 9 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 10 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 11 | I 'd have thought any normal thief would make off with the whole bag . |
| 12 | When Hurley got off on one of his tirades , Dany Habib , his number two , would stand in the doorway and roll his eyes , and Connie , his secretary , a typical career civil service type , would cluck around like a mother hen . |
| 13 | It was agreed Somerville and McCrea would stay on at the apartment in case Quinn called in . |
| 14 | He had gained five distinctions in his Matriculation examinations and it had been decided that he would stay on at the College until he was eighteen to take Higher School Certificate . |
| 15 | He would stay on through the night although the local doctor had said it was probably useless . |
| 16 | It was arranged that Hetty would stay on in the shop for a while , and Sarah would work from ten o'clock until three for the first few weeks . |
| 17 | He said he would stay on until the vacation . |
| 18 | Filmer would stay over in the station . |
| 19 | Reginald Bray , who was associated with the settlement movement in Camberwell , even seemed to doubt whether the youths needed to sleep , describing in 1904 how they would stay out on the streets ‘ until it is dark , and often in summer until dawn begins to break … the street and not the house ought probably to be regarded as the home ’ . |
| 20 | The defence minister , General Pavel Grachev , called for a compromise and promised that the army would stay out of the dispute . |
| 21 | Asked if he would hang on to the tot , he replied : ‘ No way — no , no . ’ |
| 22 | Speed and mcalllister would hang around outside the Cov penalty area and snatch onto anything the Cov tried to clear . |
| 23 | These kids would hang out in The Sombrero in Kensington High Street and Chagueramas in Covent Garden — which became The Roxy Club a couple of years later . |
| 24 | Soon , they would catch up with the sun and obscure it . |
| 25 | This would tie in with the kind of creature that could take advantage of the first abundance of flowering plants and special insects emerging in the late Cretaceous . |
| 26 | And that would tie in with the markings and the holes … |
| 27 | ( That would tie in with the pregnancy in the summer — an earlier attempt to force Steen 's hand . ) |
| 28 | Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two as if he were out of their world altogether . |
| 29 | She insisted on knowing who her intruder was , and so she would wait down by the car to see who emerged from the building . |
| 30 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |