Example sentences of "would come [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former .
2 He knows his way around the course and , with any luck , I felt the ground would come up soft .
3 He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him .
4 If it was an animal charity the Bob Martin 's would come in useful .
5 He did n't really approve of women earning a living , but the extra income would come in useful .
6 It would come in useful .
7 I think it would come in useful for people in , in all sorts of areas
8 Unfortunately the rules inspector would come in next and the rules inspector would say to the guy how many rules policies are and you say oh G A inspector and to every one he actually gained in fact it was n't there was no commitment there at all get rid of people .
9 This was one of the unwelcome chores , but it would come in handy this time because the wireless agent had his business in the village of Stone which was a couple of miles beyond Ham where Julie lived .
10 With all those loud Versace designs Larry favours , Jason and his Technicolor Dreamcoat would come in handy .
11 Neighbour Ernie Wise said : ‘ My boat would come in handy — but I ca n't reach it . ’
12 Like the birth certificate , it would come in handy for future missions .
13 ‘ I should think a dishwasher would come in handy .
14 I had organised two more fallback packages that would come in handy now .
15 You are n't seriously suggesting he might have spent fifteen years building up a simpleton 's profile , in case it would come in handy if ever he wanted to commit a crime ? ’
16 ‘ He said it would come in handy one of these days . ’
17 A new injection of cash would come in handy for Quakers .
18 THE screen persona of Lee Van Cleef suggested that if he met a rattler , the snake would come off worse .
19 Then he would come down one way or another and that was it .
20 There you can see the er wooden staging , and this is where the wagons were brought in , er and were unloaded onto this wooden staging , and the delivery vehicles would come down this er sort of rampway , erm between er well either side , the staging either side .
21 I thought — we always believed , Fabien and I — that Isabelle would come back one day . ’
22 The other one was that they would be th the direct debit re-present on the first of April would be running one day late erm which , as a consequence , means that the recall re-presents would come back one day late .
23 I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry .
24 he would come back quick .
25 Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before .
26 In his first interview with American television , President Saddam Hussein told C B S News that he did n't want war with the west , but he claimed that God was on his side and said that Iraq would come out victorious in any conflict .
27 Without you the Sunday Times colour supplement would come out black-and-white .
28 ‘ I think I always knew that it would come out one day .
29 Without any information as to the nature of the chemical that had poisoned her system she had no way of telling if she would come out alive at the other end of the process .
30 So you know , get say people from this country and America doing it , and they would come out different say to people from Japan , because their culture is different and certain different things are expected of them .
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