Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he found Frank a great help as he had a fair knowledge of native North American trees and shrubs which , when checked with the big books , sounded as though they 'd do well in the peaty soil of Eire . |
| 2 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | She hoped he would study regularly in the small front parlour — ‘ the best room ’ — but he preferred the roomy kitchen with its large table , coal-fired oven , and brass furnishing around the hearth and the hobs and the mantlepiece . |
| 5 | This would show up in the sedimentary and stratigraphic evidence . |
| 6 | I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches . |
| 7 | This was good ; what was even better — and the more remarkable , given that the gentleman was French — was that he would do so in the proper manner : with little apparent effort on his part , with a negligent modesty , as befitted an English gentleman . |
| 8 | Graphical , Paper and Media Union national officer John Mitchell , whose members joined the march , said temporary government loans to Maxwell pensioners would run out in the New Year . |
| 9 | The talks took place as a new union study suggested that it would cost more in the long-term to close pits than to keep most of them open . |
| 10 | Another former Conservative Cabinet minister , David Howell , chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee , praised the Budget as a ‘ balanced and prudent ’ statement which would pay off in the long term . |
| 11 | The party leadership 's case — that the Scottish Secretary would be forced to select councillors to sit on the Committee of the Regions from a list supplied by the four parties , and this was a key concession which would pay off in the long term — was acknowledged by committee members . |
| 12 | We were troubled at how Frank would cope back in the big world . |
| 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 | On the three mornings each week when we were n't due to train , Graham and I would get up in the cool sun of early morning at seven and play either golf or tennis . |
| 15 | ‘ While the play was on I would get home in the early hours of the morning and then Maisie would wake me up really early . |
| 16 | I was a little disappointed it had not been there , but I was quite sure he would write again in the next few days . |
| 17 | Gone are the roving gangs of party militants who would sneak round in the dead of night replacing other parties ' posters with their own and often clashing violently with rival gangs . |
| 18 | Sometimes Frankie would curl up in the big seat and sleep until she shook him awake shortly before the second feature came to an end . |
| 19 | Intor would not produce electricity , that would come later in the so-called demonstration plant . |
| 20 | ‘ Who would come here in the dead of night , never mind pluck corpses from their final resting place ? |
| 21 | erm I think the consensus is that you would n't — that either space is infinite , or at the very least it it 's finite it has no edge , so if you went in one direction for long enough you would come back in the other direction . |
| 22 | Often , in order to preserve peace , she would wander off in the opposite direction , to keep out of trouble . |
| 23 | The concentration of X free in solution would still be the same inside and outside , but X would accumulate inside in the bound form . |
| 24 | He would turn up in the Primary School playground and call , ‘ Hi there , Nick ! ’ as if Nick was a boy the same age . |
| 25 | He would lie abed in the darkened dormitory , sensing a sloshing sea of human and mutant existence surrounding him . |