Example sentences of "time [adv] [pron] would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 2 | There are times when one would almost relish amnesia . |
| 3 | When warblers were kept under constant lighting conditions , they continued to become restless at the times when they would normally migrate . |
| 4 | Were there any times when you would n't work in the shop or would n't cut the meat ? |
| 5 | It is n't just bad behaviour that makes us wish the ground would open under us : there are times when you 'd gladly disown your child when she gets to the top of the slide , freezes there and screams hysterically to be carried down . |
| 6 | Times when he would absentmindedly lay his hand on her shoulder , or stroke a wayward curl from her cheek . |
| 7 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 8 | There 's a lot of Americans this time round who 'd rather die than die for Europe . |
| 9 | He ca n't be full time otherwise he would n't have enough to do would he ? |
| 10 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm just sorry that he 's had this problem at a time when he would surely have had the chance to establish himself in the England side . |
| 12 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 13 | If your bitch is not neutered , you should be aware of the possibility of this behavioural change occurring soon after the time when she would normally have given birth , just over two months after her last heat . |
| 14 | Despite her depression she occupied herself with office tasks , and , although there were times when she dabbed at a tear , she reminded herself that she must prepare for the time when she would never see Silas again . |
| 15 | I always used to , there was a time when I would n't dream of painting indoors . |
| 16 | Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all . |
| 17 | I 'm 33 now and I ca n't imagine a time when I would ever consider using it . |