Example sentences of "[conj] would [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was playing with her emotions , stringing them out like a taut band that would snap at the slightest pressure . |
| 2 | I assumed they would all have been stowed in one corner of the hold and would reappear at the same time . |
| 3 | King 's Jester used to be a very spooky horse and would shy at the same jump , stacked in the corner of the school , every single day and if anything was moved to a different position , he would behave as if it were about to leap out and get him . |
| 4 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 5 | I wondered what would count as an adequate educational response to individuals being labelled deviant , a response which would not simply take for granted that certain acts were or were not deviant but would look at the whole context of the interaction . |