Example sentences of "would [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coke cans , once emptied , would aec over the heads of the audience . |
| 2 | That would kind of be kept a bit quiet was it ? |
| 3 | So you would kind of know when you saw what colour th that it would be that |
| 4 | The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) would harp on the same theme , announcing that ‘ Every week some incident shows that certain parts of London are more perilous for the peaceable wayfarer than the remote districts of Calabria , Sicily , or Greece , once the classic haunts of brigands ’ . |
| 5 | I would bike to the tea shop in the High Street and see what blends they had . |
| 6 | Every day of the season she would travel in her carriage and six to Ashdown Park on top of the downs , where she would course for hares with her magnificent greyhounds and walk for twenty-five miles . |
| 7 | Would assessment in the public mind become synonymous with this process , leading all other forms of assessment to pale into significance ? |
| 8 | ‘ Do I look like the sort of person who would glory in anything ? ’ |
| 9 | RICKENBACKER bass , preferably mono unbound model , any condition , preferably cheap , would part-exchange for Hohner Jack or fretless . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's the matter , mummy ? ’ they would chorus to which she invariably answered : ‘ I do n't want you to go tomorrow . ’ |
| 11 | To-night , according to the rumours that were running round the streets of Pool , they would camp at Montgomery , and cover the last short stage to Parfois in the morning . |
| 12 | Industrial investment abroad is unlikely to create wealth and jobs to the same extent as would investment within the UK . |
| 13 | He would glower at me over his jowls and tease with expressions like , ‘ Thinks she 's china and she 's pot-mould , ’ or , ‘ Thinks she 's a race-horse and she 's a pit-pony . ’ |
| 14 | We 'd put on dresses and dance to Abba records and pretend to be Abba and we would prance about the bedroom or lounge singing into hairbrushes . |
| 15 | It was a red machine that he had painted blue ; and summertime mornings , early July , he would wheel on his quest . |
| 16 | And though she half hoped that Friend would wheel alongside her so that she could ignore him , he did n't appear . |
| 17 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 18 | If payments were partly based on per capita emissions of greenhouse gases , would methane from paddy fields be given the same price as carbon dioxide from power stations , cars and burning tropical forests ? |
| 19 | He laughed a lot and his laugh would boom down the dale . |
| 20 | Paradoxically , constructivism would side with Stich ( see note 1 ) about the unreality of belief . |
| 21 | The SDLP , which can expect three or possibly four MPs if Mr Gerry Adams , the Sinn Fein leader is beaten in West Belfast , would side with Labour . |
| 22 | Most reasonable people would side with the rhetoric of ‘ rights ’ here , particularly of the giraffe 's plight were it unnaturally cramped . |
| 23 | What was unexpected , at least by Adobe , was that Microsoft , who were themselves looking for an outline font technology for Presentation Manager , would side with Apple and agree to adopt TrueType . |
| 24 | Organisers said that the successful bidder would lunch with the governor who had offered the prize . |
| 25 | Though for one quite dreadful moment she wondered if , English not being his first language , he had meant that he would lunch with her that day , and not dine . |
| 26 | By one o'clock he 'd be staggered by the reels of shiny new bureaucratic red tape and return to the hotel fort where we would lunch by the pool , talk , plan , watch , and he would slowly recuperate . |
| 27 | Only through industrialization would independence from the West be maintained , as the internal weaknesses of China and its consequent loss of territory had shown . |
| 28 | If someone 's dress or tie were askew , no one would dream of asking them to move . ’ |
| 29 | In normal commercial life , no one would dream of doing such a thing . |
| 30 | No one would dream of putting a ‘ Vote Socialist ’ poster in a front window or an ‘ I back Chirac ’ sticker on a car bumper . |