Example sentences of "we would [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would stroll down to the quay at Bideford . |
| 2 | Without this control the world would be in madness and we would end up with the laws of the jungle , where the strongest wins . |
| 3 | Later we would sit outside on the terrace reading and drinking cold beer by candlelight ; translucent green geckos would hoover up the mosquitoes from around the flames as we read . |
| 4 | ‘ We made a pact , that even if we split up , we would meet up on the bridge again one day . |
| 5 | They involve quite substantial amounts of money at any time for a task which we consider has been especially well done , usually , in fairness , further than we would expect just for the execution of the job . |
| 6 | Mother used to come too , although she was chapel , and then we would go on to the Methodist service in the evening . |
| 7 | Sometimes when the afternoon tide of heat reached its high mark , we would go over to the hotel . |
| 8 | It was only when I felt safe with you , and after we had spent some hours working on our poems , that we would go down to the restaurant for late dinner , which always ended with either banana or ‘ flan ’ . |
| 9 | Later , after leisurely baths , we would go down to the bar for our aperitifs and continue reading or play cards until dinner , which was always excellent and ended with a savoury — an almost obsolete course , sadly . |
| 10 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 11 | There was a holiday feeling about every day : we would wake up in the morning and say , ‘ What shall we do today ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was hoping that we could actually tease out as part of the discussion , whether there is erm a positive way forward if if we if you are minded if we are minded to recommend the new settlement , then I would hope we would tease out during the course of this discussion erm the preferred or a preferred host authority for this new settlement . |
| 14 | Every day , we would drive up to the mountains and each day the Syrian tanks would be a little closer . |
| 15 | we never dreamed that we would get through to the next round , to be held in London . |
| 16 | Somehow I just knew in the end we would get back to the subject of money ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We would line up across the parade ground , shoulder to shoulder , and in a slow forward walk , eyes fixed on the ground , would pick up any cigarette ends or pieces of paper on the gravel . |
| 19 | We could , although we would run again into the problem of a diverging integral owing to the limits at infinity . |
| 20 | " Last winter , " he recalls , " Myra would come across from Dunoon for a fortnightly session and the three of us would go out onto the practice ground whatever the weather . |