Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They no longer felt , as they had previously , that there was unlimited time or that things would unfold and develop along the lines that they had unconsciously assumed they would . |
| 2 | Would bathe and put on fresh clothes . |
| 3 | Even in Yorkshire , where you would think that watching all those frisky animals might have some sort of knock-on ( or knock-up ) effect , the people only manage 67 times — which makes them the lowest in the league table . |
| 4 | " I would think that to follow your thought in this instance is only possible for one to whom the message of Tristan , in particular , has been revealed . " |
| 5 | The ideal type codifies a scheme of reasons which would motivate someone who was wholly a bureaucrat , and understanding proceeds from what such purely rational — legal persons would think and do . |
| 6 | Here , she would think and ask herself , again and again , what lay in the future for her ? |
| 7 | M. Grimaud said that would be very pleasant for her : he would deliver and collect her , and visit his cousin on the domaine . |
| 8 | Here the LMS from Stafford and the GWR from Wellington would deliver and collect the Army rail wagons . |
| 9 | Generally the offence is straightforward as outlined but if an unlicensed pillion passenger on a motor bicycle persuaded the rider to take off his ‘ L ’ plates or the passenger took them off himself he would aid and abet the rider 's offence of no ‘ L ’ plates . |
| 10 | This school was to have been patronised by some of the first noblemen and gentlemen of the country , and Clark had the fullest assurance that the government would aid and support his venture . |
| 11 | I mean I do n't write for therapeutic purposes in the sense that you might imagine , you know , someone in a mental hospital would paint or do pottery or conceivably write in order to relieve the inner tensions . |
| 12 | Jay would nod and reply , make coffee , light cigarettes and smile at her silk stocking fantasy . |
| 13 | Durkin would nod and smile gently as the tiny bird-like voice meandered on . |
| 14 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 15 | I had instantly buried the intense feelings hoping that with time they would decompose or reform and grow into normal healthy heterosexual longings . |
| 16 | Lucy would laugh and wave her hand when people said , ‘ How lovely they are . ’ |
| 17 | Master would laugh and throw sticks for him to fetch and they 'd wrestle and run and leap and chase and , for a little while at least , he would be free . |
| 18 | She remembered the smell as he tipped out the bag of manure he got from Tandy 's every now and then , and the way she would hold her nose and shout ‘ Pooh ! ’ , and he would laugh and call her Miss Dainty Socks . |
| 19 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 20 | Dana would laugh and say she had been teasing , and they would talk about the big show for charity where Dana would model the wedding gown Claudia had designed . |
| 21 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 22 | She scoured the streets in the poorer areas looking for likely candidates and then , knowing the reality of poverty , taught them the rules of hygiene in her own way , which the Girls would imitate and laugh at behind her back . |
| 23 | I would comment as follows : — |
| 24 | The chaps who wanted the cold plunge would undress and leave their things in lockers there , and there were two small cold basins to swim in — two here , anyhow — one on either side . |
| 25 | Its mandate would include technology transfers and the encouragement of investment in projects which would enhance or safeguard the environment . |
| 26 | Such knowledge was not only desirable in itself , but would liberate and transform the life of the individual , and through him [ sic ] , the life of the society , since such individuals would or should be the appropriate leaders or rulers , a notion which would become democratized in modern ideologies of liberal education to include ‘ leaders ’ in any walk of life ( especially the working-class ) and indeed the ordinary , democratic citizen . |
| 27 | She spent the greater part of her working life trying to understand people 's needs , but the need for a God who would comfort and console and right wrongs — in the next life if not in this — although she might understand it , was something she could not uphold . |
| 28 | Although the CNAA was not now to oversee a rolling programme of promotions to the ‘ university club ’ , how much autonomy the new polytechnics would want and acquire — from their local authorities and the CNAA — was to be a feature of debate from the creation of the first polytechnics , and from the decision to set up a Committee of Directors of Polytechnics in December 1969 and its formal establishment in April 1970 . |
| 29 | Obviously , the pupils would want or need a boarding education , and the reasons for that preference would have to be stated — on all this , the Report was embarrassingly vague . |
| 30 | As he had no children , how could anyone say what kind of a father he would make until given a chance to prove it himself ? |