Example sentences of "[coord] would [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sooner or later he would be too exhausted to think straight and would give up the fight against himself . |
| 2 | He called them spectaculars and would set up the storyline , do the lyrics and librettos with J. J. Wood and co-write the music with Cuthbert Clarke . |
| 3 | As far as William was concerned , seizing the English throne was just one move in his struggle to resist the growing power of France that had already lasted twenty years and would take up the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 4 | And who would say that enough was enough , and would take on the task of punishing those who transgressed the rules of the game ? |
| 5 | All dealers who had written six on their paper would scream " Yeah " and would flick down the No. 6 switch on their phones , lighting up the panel . |
| 6 | John Houghton , director of the Meteorological Office and chair of the IPCC 's Working Group I , said that Thatcher 's programme , if repeated worldwide , would not stop the rise in temperatures , but would slow down the rate of increase . |