Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 And er , then he would carry all your goods in , in , I used to think it was wonderful how he managed to pick them all up in his arms and he 'd walk round to the next counter where your other , you had your other dry goods you see , your tea and sugar and your fruit and er then it would all be totted up together .
2 Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission .
3 And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system .
4 The number of two-car families doubled in the Fifties to reach fifteen per cent of American households ( and would double again in the next ten years ) .
5 He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up .
6 Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn .
7 ( This would work well with the third of the examples above . )
8 Then , usually , he set more puffball to smoke in underneath , to kill off all the bees , and they would move on to the next hive .
9 In the same circumstances the shooting man would move on to the next burrow with his remaining ferrets while keeping one eye open to watch for the emergence to the surface of any of the muzzled ferrets he had left behind .
10 John Browne , the Conservative MP for Winchester since 1979 , announced on March 15 , 1990 , that he would stand down at the next general election .
11 I started Chisenhall Street on first quarter points , then I would walk along to the next very scruffy part — all broken down garages and yards and things .
12 Two more previews to go , and then , at seven o'clock on the Thursday ( early so that the critics could get their copy in ) , the curtain would go up on the first night proper of The Hooded Owl .
13 The inspector was pleased to receive that , noting the fact that we had a , a drop in our work output but expected that , that would go up in the next year or two .
14 They also had previous experience , so we hoped all would go well for the second run .
15 we never dreamed that we would get through to the next round , to be held in London .
16 After Moorgate she had to think how she would get out at the next station .
17 I was a little disappointed it had not been there , but I was quite sure he would write again in the next few days .
18 Or Jagger would come over from the next hotel and we 'd have late night ‘ looning ’ sessions , and then Angie and I would go off again with Zowie .
19 Other potential candidates , who were remaining loyal to Ted but who it was known would come in on the second ballot if Ted were defeated , were quietly being accused of cowardice by the Neave camp .
20 It would take ages , and then someone like Willy Carson would pull out at the last minute .
21 Yet what was certain was that God would strike punitively at the first sign of sin , and the worst sin in a ruler was pride .
22 The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke .
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