Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] would [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 2 | So she went to Madras , in whose pleasant climate she would live out the few remaining weeks of her life . |
| 3 | They thought if I became England manager I would take over the FA — and I would have done ! ’ |
| 4 | She told Cathy she would pass on the eggs but would like croissants and coffee , and presently I was bringing them to her as she sat with eyes demurely downwards , studiously ignoring my existence . |
| 5 | As the clocks chimed and struck all over the city he would stroll down the Broad , along St Giles and round by the Parks … |
| 6 | She thought of all the wretched women in the East End , and aye , in the West End too , not excluding her own maltreated self , and thought that at whatever cost she would carry out the task she had set herself — to find out how the under-privileged lived , and to strike a blow for suffering womanhood while she did so . |
| 7 | When lifted and placed against a transparent plastic sheet they would show up the tiniest particle . |
| 8 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |
| 9 | About half an hour before the return of the aircraft on operational nights we would wake up the duty Met Officer , who was usually snoozing in the ante-room , so that he could mug up on the weather situation before the first of the returning crews came in . |