Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | we never dreamed that we would get through to the next round , to be held in London . |