Example sentences of "[coord] they would [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 He aimed at fifteen miles a day , and they would march down the southern flanks of the Pentland Hills , to Biggar and Broughton and thence by Tweedsmuir to Moffat , at the head of Annandale , some sixty miles .
2 However they said they would continue insisting on an 8pm bedtime and they would keep up the bedtime stories .
3 And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way .
4 Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have .
5 But they would roll back the great doors that divided the hall from the morning room , and carpets would have been lifted and floors polished , earlier in the day .
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