Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a week or so I was acclimatised , and I would laugh at the discomforts of half-asphyxiated visitors . |
| 2 | I smiled to myself as I let in the clutch and moved off I would stop at the shop and tell the little man that he could collect his pans without the slightest fear of being torn limb from limb , but my overriding emotion was one of relief that I had not cut the sparkle out of the big dog 's life . |
| 3 | I would stand at the street door and wait until his tall , burly figure appeared , still plodding along with that measured tread acquired from years on the beat . |
| 4 | Rather than somebody as I say like me who sat down there and he 'd just quote all these figures and you would n't know what the hell he was on about and just , all you , all I would understand at the end is that 's what you got ta pay . |
| 5 | Now , well now it 's just now we 've got nobody who , who score actually really scores goals except Thomas I would say at the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ I would jump at the chance of a move because it would be big step in my own career at 20 , and a financial boost for Bangor . |
| 7 | I thought I would die at the start but , actually , once I got into the swing of it all it was rather fun . ’ |
| 8 | I told him I would call at the house this evening but he said he 'd prefer to come here . |
| 9 | I would look at the lines and tremble . |
| 10 | Anca Petrescu 's model was of a palace which would stand at the heart of a new city . |
| 11 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 12 | This involved what were described as ‘ initial forgings for the pressure vessel ’ — the 36-foot-high steel cylinder which would lie at the heart of the reactor — as well as other basic equipment . |
| 13 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 14 | In the hall she would put on her hat and , lulling all suspicions of decay and its mortifications to rest in the conviction of her own economical and resourceful genius , with Gigi on her shoulder , she would stand at the head of the basement staircase screaming ( Gigi would scream too ) for Silly-Willie and Brigid to come and take her instructions and give their assistance while she created some nauseating delicacy for Dada 's dinner . |
| 15 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 16 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 17 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 18 | She would sit at the piano and sing . |
| 19 | " So are you keeping up your prayers to St Anthony ? " she would ask at the end of each interview , to which Sara would dutifully reply , " Yes , mother-in-law , " while knowing that she was not . |
| 20 | She would look at the rest later . |
| 21 | The Baronne de Rochefort presented her compliments to Mademoiselle Russell , and would be obliged if she would call at the château at three o'clock that afternoon . |
| 22 | If left sitting on a chair she would pick at the cloth cover until she made a little hole and then would pull out the threads and small pieces of the inside padding to eat . |
| 23 | She would rage at the boys ; they largely ignored her . |
| 24 | The short list included Professor Jim Jeffery , a long-standing combatant with the CEGB on economics , and Dr Janet Rowe , a well-known adviser on ecology , who would look at the effect of the development on its immediate environment . |
| 25 | Afterwards a buffet lunch will be available for any who would like at The Forbury , Leominster-prepared by Amy Ormond ( Wootten 1943 ) — and in the afternoon at The Forbury Vicky Archard ( Lloyd 1966 ) , member and past president of the Hereford and Mid-Wales Philatelic Society will give a talk and display on a philatelic theme . |
| 26 | My present house model leaves at the end of the month and there are plenty of girls who would jump at the chance . ’ |
| 27 | There were several youngsters in the chorus playing understudies who would jump at the chance of having a stab at Sonja . |
| 28 | The roof of the farmhouse leaked and often you would return at the end of the day to find a puddle of water on top of your sleeping bag . |
| 29 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
| 30 | ‘ You said , if you could stay here , in Roma , and be la Principessa 's companion instead of cavorting on a catwalk , you would leap at the chance . ’ |