Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just after nine she would join the throng of the prominenti and walk the two hundred yards or so to the conference centre . |
| 2 | Writing this in 1776 , he was pleased enough with what was happening ; had he been able to look back from 1815 he would have seen his optimism largely vindicated . |
| 3 | When Peter Adamson wrote the NI 's first editorial back in 1973 he would have found it hard to believe that things could get much worse in the field of trade — but they have . |
| 4 | If you acquired 100 shares back in 1973 you would have paid £145 . |
| 5 | I was 22 when I had to suffer the pressure , perhaps now at 27 I would cope much better . |
| 6 | It seems reasonable to suppose that even before 1790 he would have learned to appreciate their attitudes towards recent history . |