Example sentences of "would come [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I would be obliged if you would come straight to the point , Captain Carew . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 3 | He would come regularly to the rectory now , Lavinia thought . |
| 4 | She could in no way be glad that Timothy Gedge would come regularly to the rectory : that prospect was grim . |
| 5 | Sound would come both through the material of the door itself and around all the edges . |
| 6 | The leisurewear industry would come apart at the seams , literally , without this indispensable fastening . |
| 7 | He had the sensation that it would come apart from the body and roll over into his hands . |
| 8 | The word ‘ new ’ did not actually appear on the order form but nevertheless it was clear from the form that the car would come either from the manufacturer 's stock at the factory or off the production line . |
| 9 | He would come exuberantly into the office after ops with his crew tagging along behind him , to tell us that our weather forecast had been spot on , it had all been a piece of cake , bombs went down — Wham ! — right on the target , no trouble at all , good show ! , and here they were back on the old tarmac , cheating death again , etc . |
| 10 | If the sinker plate was n't there the knitting would come forward with the needles staying in the hooks of the needles , so even if some yarn was laid on the needles the stitches would n't be knitted . |
| 11 | Even I can think of some lines that would come too near the knuckle for his liking . ’ |
| 12 | In the course of the evening a note was handed in from Mrs Campbell of Jura House saying she had heard of our arrival and as she was sure there was no comfort in the Hotel she hoped we would come there in the morning and stay with them while we were on the island , assuring us also that she would do all in her power to further the cause for which we had come . |
| 13 | In the mid 1960s a dominant group of Kikuyu , who were close to the Kenyatta family , determined that neither Odinga nor Mboya would come close to the presidency . |
| 14 | If , as recent work has suggested ( Ch.1 ) , the sustained growth of population from the doldrums of the fifteenth century began to affect the economy in the early years of the sixteenth century rather than previously , this would come close to the period when the volume of criticism of enclosures became more vocal and more explicit . |
| 15 | It was arranged that they would take the horses down to the railway sidings where there was enough light from the warehouses to school in the evenings , and Biddy would come twice during the week and once at the weekend , for two hours each time . |
| 16 | Of the ones who were , half would come across from the News of the World , Sunday Mirror and People . |