Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having completed our ‘ good for us ’ walk , we settled down by one of the two huge log fires with our paperbacks in the happy anticipation that tea would arrive promptly at four and would consist of improbably thinly cut home-made bread and butter and other bakings , whose smell had been pervading the lounge for some time with forecasts of gratifications to come . |
| 2 | The other source of embarrassment was the very real possibility that Dennis would stroll over at any moment and catch us at it . |
| 3 | Other than to say I 've already mentioned er in respect of Mr 's point about his view that no new sites would come forward at forty one thousand , well quite clearly a substantial number of new sites in the residue will come forward , these will be new sites . |
| 4 | On location in Ceylon , Vivien and Peter Finch would go off at 2 o'clock in the morning to celebrate . |
| 5 | Normally she and Prince Philip would sit down at 8.15 sharp for a breakfast of kippers and kedgeree . |
| 6 | Erm why I say five men , you might think that peculiar because there was a man and a conductor each time but we used to reckon that two buses , full-time buses would be scheduled by te or run by ten men because there one man would come off at nine o'clock , have a relief of hour and fifteen minutes and then another one would take over from him . |
| 7 | Rival villages would line up at either end of the green to do this . |
| 8 | All the known laws of science would break down at such a point . |