Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would talk about the call to the WTN office in Beirut saying that John was OK , and tell them that Sontag 's sighting of Brian showed that silence from the kidnappers did n't necessarily mean that a hostage was dead . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps on your way out you 'd ask about the coffee I was promised . ’ |
| 3 | And when she could speak again , she said , ‘ I thought you 'd come about the pigeons ! |
| 4 | She would worry about the rights and wrongs of the situation in the morning . |
| 5 | The first thing you would notice about the landscape if you were to travel back in time was how wet it was . |
| 6 | It is also a question we would ask about the tomb of a knight , whose collar suggests he might have been a Lancastrian . |
| 7 | Because the service was so good they 'd all , you know , they 'd forget about the delivery that would be there . |
| 8 | Or , they 'd talk about the party and say , hey what about Neil 's girlfriend ! |
| 9 | In the pub , quietly , so as not to be overheard , they would complain about the lack of compassion and the ingrained racism of the Party . |
| 10 | They would talk about the weather , about what went on by the sea-coast , about Easterling pirates , about news from Lincoln , or Peterborough , or York , or Chester , but not about the forest . |
| 11 | ( A group of judges who were all soft conventionalists would disagree about the exact content of the law because they would disagree about the content of this implicit extension . ) |
| 12 | and erm Wickham Market had erm Machine Centre erm , that was used during the war for erm certain courses er particularly for erm tractor drivers , they used to er have a week 's course , they had to apply to the Education Committee and er we got these applications in and erm they spent a week at Wickham Market , then in they used to stay in lodgings if they came from great distances and erm they would learn about the maintenance of erm of tractors and er , I suppose it 's quite a good thing really because er , it was difficult to get any repairs done in those days |
| 13 | ‘ They would chat about the day , what Alex had been doing — then Alex would come on the phone . |
| 14 | Asked last year what he would do about the loss of his top stars , Grigorovich said defiantly : ‘ If the stars leave we will bring up another generation , and when they go , we will bring up another . ’ |
| 15 | Exhausted but high on adrenalin , he would roam about the house unable to sleep . |
| 16 | By contrast , the Labour party has been silent about new technology , preferring to mutter about unemployment without putting forward detailed proposals as to what it would do about the problem beyond throwing public money at the dole queues . |