Example sentences of "would go away " in BNC.

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1 A plan occurred to her ; she and Lucy would go away for a weekend to the heart of the country , roses round the door , and find out how they would be lovers .
2 The Israeli Prime Minister , Yitzak Shamir , procrastinated and postponed discussion of the points at the cabinet , the inner cabinet , or the top decision-making body known as the ‘ forum of four ’ senior ministers , in the hope that the problem would go away .
3 After lying in a hot bath for an unusually long time , he stretched out on the bed , eyes closed , hoping that the pains would go away .
4 Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away .
5 She wished they would go away and just leave her alone .
6 How awful , after all , to be wishing that people who only wanted to help would go away and leave her alone .
7 Perhaps the child that he was when these events had occurred , had wished the adults would go away and leave him alone .
8 Based on my experience , I thought it would go away overnight .
9 ‘ I just wish the fleet would go away , ’ said a taxi driver .
10 It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again .
11 Ever since the age of 13 I 've been hoping my spots would go away — but constant picking at them has left some scars . ’
12 In 1988 , Karl Ludvigsen came out with a study that two of the big six would go away — he predicted they would be GM and Renault .
13 He would be away two weeks : when he returned , he told Grégoire , they would go away on holiday , to the sea perhaps , as they had the year before .
14 However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away !
15 As for the smaller lumps running into my breast , it was just fibrous tissue which would go away .
16 The man he displaced , Humfrey Malins , used to shake his head and say , ‘ I do wish Malcolm would go away .
17 Many thought that greenery would go away when times got tough but they are being proved wrong .
18 She wished Taureg would come and she wished the sailor would go away .
19 She shrugged and stared unspeaking down the loch , and wished again that he would go away .
20 In your October edition there appears an article entitled ‘ The Tibetan art show Kissinger wished would go away ’ .
21 He wished the Colonel would go away , but he knew Ford would keep pestering until he received some reassurance .
22 ‘ We originally thought the IXI name would go away , ’ says new owner , Santa Cruz Operation Inc : instead the company will use the IXI name as a brand for its front-end technologies and it will also use the IXI connection to try and win accounts that would otherwise be unwilling to buy from Santa Cruz , but do n't give a damn who owns IXI .
23 ‘ We originally thought the IXI name would go away , ’ says new owner , Santa Cruz Operation Inc .
24 The Tibetan art show Kissinger wished would go away
25 Diana immediately told Charles that she would make herself scarce so while he continued fishing she hid behind a tree for half an hour hoping vainly that the journalists would go away .
26 After five minutes , it would go away .
27 When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away .
28 If only his father would go away to sea !
29 She felt isolated in this comfortable place , but paradoxically , she also wished that these young women , with their bright faces and inane chatter , would go away and leave her in peace .
30 She would n't wake him — but she wished her nagging pain would go away .
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