Example sentences of "would [verb] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing that he noticed ; every now and again she 'd glance at the uncurtained window , as if she was checking the progress of the oncoming darkness . |
| 2 | The dogs themselves I 'd collect at the last minute . |
| 3 | They say twenty five children at the primary school get more individual attention than they 'd get at a larger school . |
| 4 | Although she 'd protest at the mere notion , she sacrificed a possible future career as a contralto — to put marriage and the family first . |
| 5 | ‘ Oo , ’ they 'd say at the merest smear of mud , ‘ you had a pig in here ? ’ |
| 6 | She wanted to be able to sit there and be like them , to sit there and sip Coke and not to have to worry about whether she would laugh at the right moments . |
| 7 | He had made her whole body feel as though it would explode at the slightest caress from him . |
| 8 | During Oldenburg 's visit , it was agreed that he and his family would stay at a secluded dacha outside St Petersburg . |
| 9 | There we would gaze at the massive steam engines , all ready connected to their huge waggons , to make a quick getaway to The Market Place at dawn on the following day . |
| 10 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 11 | As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 . |
| 12 | He does more than an ordinary caretaker would do at the small plastics company where he has worked for years . |
| 13 | He was playing with her emotions , stringing them out like a taut band that would snap at the slightest pressure . |
| 14 | There are many players out there who I 'm sure would look at a non-locking system as archaic and unusable . |
| 15 | ‘ I understand your concern , Shih Spatz , but if you would look at the other file . ’ |
| 16 | And on Monday mornings , she would look at the little bridge on her willow pattern plate and wish she could run across it away from her Uncle Philip 's house to where the flowering trees were . |
| 17 | Leader of the research team Professor Raj Bhopal from Newcastle University said the study would look at the hidden features of deprivation , and people 's lifestyles , and also look at the environment , particularly air pollution . |
| 18 | I wondered what would count as an adequate educational response to individuals being labelled deviant , a response which would not simply take for granted that certain acts were or were not deviant but would look at the whole context of the interaction . |
| 19 | This can be avoided in the second model : Here pupils would begin at an agreed level and be guided through tasks with demands at each step increasing so that every child can positively achieve , i.e. reach their place on the ladder while the most able can continue to show their abilities beyond a fixed range . |
| 20 | The international mediator Lord Owen said yesterday that talks between the Croatian government and Serbs would begin at the United Nations next week in an effort to renew a peace agreement blown apart in recent fighting . |
| 21 | Any self respecting managing director in industry would recoil at the last Feethams balance sheet . |
| 22 | If true , it should follow that antral cancer would be more common and would occur at an early age in those parts of the world where the majority of the population already have serum antibodies to the organism before adult life . |
| 23 | The corresponding component oscillations of the wave would be , as the physicists say , " in phase " , that is the crests and troughs would occur at the same instants for both components . |
| 24 | An examination of the naming patterns used by the Titfords of Frome would suggest at a cursory glance that every eldest son was named after his paternal grandfather , as a matter of course . |
| 25 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 26 | They Those would evaporate at the same rates , although that one would be gone sooner because there 's less off it . |
| 27 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 28 | It might be short on intrigue and backstabbing but it would move at a cracking pace . |
| 29 | We 'd immediately dismiss 5% of our workforce and the same would happen at the larger timber firms throughout the UK . |
| 30 | On getting there I calculated when I would arrive at the next post , where I promised myself lunch . |