Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.

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1 At times I would wake up in the night , streaming with sweat , from a nightmare in which I relived that terrifying night in Valladolid .
2 When we took the step we did last May , we did n't desert the Tory Party , we rebelled against it and I for one said that I would go back in the fullness of time , I just hoped I could go back with something to show for it .
3 On the three mornings each week when we were n't due to train , Graham and I would get up in the cool sun of early morning at seven and play either golf or tennis .
4 I would get up in the morning , step out of my caravan , face the ocean and do my exercises , followed by my ritual routine .
5 ‘ While the play was on I would get home in the early hours of the morning and then Maisie would wake me up really early .
6 I would lie out in the midday sun and plaster myself in baby oil ! ’
7 However , I would point out in the passing , and apropos of nothing , that mass murderers have been known to dote on tiny tots . ’
8 If her parents needed her to be looked after , she would be off there again later ; or she would go there in the evenings to read a book to her grandfather , or play games with him , or listen to one of the old pair storytelling .
9 Often , in order to preserve peace , she would wander off in the opposite direction , to keep out of trouble .
10 I wondered how she would settle down in the United States when she and Hank did get married .
11 He stood back in the street , the rain stinging his eyes , wetting him to the skin , getting in his mouth and eyes ; warm rain , huge hard drops , slicking and sticking the clothes to his body ; erotic , making his heart beat faster in a sudden , squally sexual fantasy ; she would invite him in … no , better yet , she would turn up in the street , having been out , also wet to the skin , she would look at him … they would go in …
12 Soon she would lie down in the arms of a stronger lover than Tom would ever be and fall asleep .
13 The meat she would dry out in the sun tomorrow .
14 Explain and justify the options you would take up in the case of : even additions ; random additions ; , grouped additions ; no additions .
15 erm I think the consensus is that you would n't — that either space is infinite , or at the very least it it 's finite it has no edge , so if you went in one direction for long enough you would come back in the other direction .
16 You can work out that over a period of time you would have somewhere in the region of fifteen assignments during the year guaranteed .
17 Er you would indicate somewhere in the Harrogate Knaresborough are on the key diagram , a solid black triangle to illustrate an A fifty nine Harrogate Knaresborough relief road ?
18 There was a holiday feeling about every day : we would wake up in the morning and say , ‘ What shall we do today ? ’
19 In the course of the evening a note was handed in from Mrs Campbell of Jura House saying she had heard of our arrival and as she was sure there was no comfort in the Hotel she hoped we would come there in the morning and stay with them while we were on the island , assuring us also that she would do all in her power to further the cause for which we had come .
20 And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness .
21 But as a dutiful wife , she managed to put a good face on it , particularly after her husband promised they would return again in the spring .
22 They would take off in the event of a German cut , which would make lower UK rates more likely .
23 I never actually met him , but sometimes they would stretch out in the garden on warm days .
24 This was good ; what was even better — and the more remarkable , given that the gentleman was French — was that he would do so in the proper manner : with little apparent effort on his part , with a negligent modesty , as befitted an English gentleman .
25 She hoped he would study regularly in the small front parlour — ‘ the best room ’ — but he preferred the roomy kitchen with its large table , coal-fired oven , and brass furnishing around the hearth and the hobs and the mantlepiece .
26 He would go up in the lift .
27 He would turn up in the Primary School playground and call , ‘ Hi there , Nick ! ’ as if Nick was a boy the same age .
28 He would lie abed in the darkened dormitory , sensing a sloshing sea of human and mutant existence surrounding him .
29 He was not resentful , because he would get there in the end .
30 I was a little disappointed it had not been there , but I was quite sure he would write again in the next few days .
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