Example sentences of "[conj] we would [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or we would go to the coast to pick cotton , which is really exhausting . |
| 2 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 3 | The only problem was that we had envisaged a tumbledown affair that we would rebuild over the period of time while we were still living and working in London . |
| 4 | In that we would go through the same procedure , whether they lived in |
| 5 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 6 | It gave us a bit of a giggle in the office , but I have to say it 's not the sort of thing that we would show to the public . |
| 7 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 8 | However the accurate knowledge that we would need of the slit 's momentum will so blur its position that the diffraction pattern C , which depends on where the slits are , would be washed out . |
| 9 | So it was agreed , right in the beginning that we would establish a separate agency to manage the Eurofighter two thousand programme , but that we would look at the possibility of bringing these two agencies together at as early as possible time and the most expedient way for all concerned . |
| 10 | I accept that , and I admit that there have been occasions when I and other hon. Members have blackmailed various organisations , including British Rail , with the amount of time that we would take in the House unless they did something to improve the position of our constituents . |
| 11 | Director said , ‘ My first man into Athens , a young man but a good friend of Lawrence 's , has promised the widow that we 'd go for the jugular on this one . ’ |
| 12 | That we 'd go to the shore , and we 'd spend a whole day there , no lemonade and biscuits then . |
| 13 | In the course of this latest war , Douglas Hurd has said that the British state has ‘ no interest in interfering in Iraq , any more than we would interfere in the internal affairs of another country ’ . |
| 14 | The discovery of even a few of these objects could tell us much about the early history of the Solar System , perhaps more than we would learn from the elusive ( or illusory ) Planet X. Gerald D. Quinlan is at the Lick Observatory , University of California , . |
| 15 | By then Keenan and me are pretty drunk ; and they keep stealing our bottle from the dressing room , so we 'd go across the street and get another jug . |
| 16 | The furious lights would flash past and we would move into the middle again . |
| 17 | Carpets and cushions would be ordered and we would sit in the hot stillness , our voices quiet , the half-English , half-Arabic clear on the heavy air . |
| 18 | She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars . |
| 19 | They would visit the cemetery together : ‘ she would take a tram car , see she 'd one or two buried there , it was her own family , and we 'd go to the cemetery nearly every Sunday if the weather was good . |
| 20 | And we 'd go to the theatre or but I mean we do all that sort of thing still but we just have to cram it into the week . |
| 21 | A massive great big flask of coffee and when we got there we stopped and had a sandwich and a coffee , and we 'd go in the club , set all up and we 'd sit quiet and then we 'd have a quiet drink would n't we ? |
| 22 | Caroline and the family would often come with me and we 'd stay at the Butcher 's Arms overnight . |
| 23 | And we 'd run in the middle of the road and today we could n't stand it . |
| 24 | our acts were in the building a lot of the time working on their songs , while we would help in the most appropriate ways to ensure the artist 's continued development . ’ |
| 25 | Whether we would go to the full two fifty I think will have to be you know we 'll have to wait till nearer the time . |
| 26 | And we helped each other and we worked things out together — you know , at home , or when we 'd run through the lines . |
| 27 | Without line B , we might reasonably conclude that this evaluation is the poet 's judgment , just as we would suppose for the preceding verses , 15–16 ( though the presence of ) in v. 15 may give us second thoughts ) . |
| 28 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |