Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These sounds and sights of East Anglia , she felt , would remain with her for the rest of her life . |
| 2 | At the back of my mind was the feeling that I would bump into you in the street . |
| 3 | She knew that was one of many memories which would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 4 | It would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 5 | All along Zen had been haunted by the idea that he might make some blunder which would hang over him for the rest of his life , yet here he was behaving like a dope addict . |
| 6 | She did n't think he would use the ticket , any more than he would wait for her after the performance . |
| 7 | If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level . |
| 8 | He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed . |
| 9 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
| 10 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 11 | The body 's mechanism takes over because the logical consequence of that would be to die , and we can see here that there is an arousal of something like eight to ten seconds , and during that period the patient would wake up , probably not sufficient that they would know about it in the morning , and we can see here that the breathing starts again . |
| 12 | He would refer to it as the ‘ funny stuff what makes me happy , ’ claiming to live for it . |
| 13 | Alan Middleton has recently moved to Aberdeen with Christian Literature Crusade , pray that he would settle into his new role in that place and that Alan would be open to what God would do through him in the coming months . |
| 14 | Yet when it came to negotiation , who would speak to him in the name of France ? |
| 15 | Balanced with a diet of the gospels , I would look on it as the church planters ' manual . |
| 16 | It was too close to Christmas to bother about embarking on any sort of adult education before it , so I pacified Toby by saying I 'd got plenty of time and would look into it after the New Year , and we settled down to wallow in being together and getting into the Christmas spirit . |
| 17 | And yet the story which the people of Dodona will tell about the black dove from Egypt becoming their oracle would surely arise because the foreign woman 's language would sound to them like the twittering of birds . |
| 18 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
| 19 | If the immigration authorities concluded that Mr Hussain 's assertion that he was undecided as to his long term intentions was pretended rather than genuine , clearly that would weigh against him in the primary purpose issue . |
| 20 | She started drinking heavily , and fellow drunks would return with her from the pub on Friday nights . |
| 21 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
| 22 | Then we would read about it in the press and it was all self-perpetuating . |
| 23 | Well actually , no , I I I would disagree with you at the moment . |
| 24 | ‘ Patsy was told by both fortune tellers that something would happen to her before the New Year — that an attempt would be made on her life , ’ he said . |
| 25 | What would happen to it in the future ? |
| 26 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 27 | Not that anyone in the company seriously questioned whether the new outlet would be successful ; they had seen American tourists ( although not necessarily Californians ) on holiday in England ‘ going crazy ’ over the designs and assumed people would flock to them in the States . |
| 28 | A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ . |
| 29 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 30 | Perhaps tomorrow , before the matinee performance , she would go with him to the news-theatre for a sandwich . |