Example sentences of "the [num] [prep] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Last winter , " he recalls , " Myra would come across from Dunoon for a fortnightly session and the three of us would go out onto the practice ground whatever the weather . |
| 2 | I took myself off for long walks along the shore and into the hills every morning and did not return to Les Glycines until noon , when the three of us would drive in Otto 's traction avant to one of his favourite places for seafood . |
| 3 | The three of us would chat about anything and everything for a while then Alan would take him into the surgery so that they could be private . ’ |
| 4 | Then , unerringly , he found his way to Modigliani , wherever he was , and the two of them would drink the night away until they were unconscious , taken to the police station and beaten up . |
| 5 | Anyone looking at the two of them would think that they were lovers . |
| 6 | Then , in the car , the two of them would sing nonsensical songs , made up from Yiddish slang , at the tops of their voices and talk gibberish — childish , therapeutic , playful gibberish . |
| 7 | And the two of them would discuss , with some enthusiasm , where Donald could have acquired this information . |