Example sentences of "and would [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour .
2 He had booked on tomorrow night 's sleeper , and would head up to Oban on Friday .
3 Janet , tiptoeing out into the hall when Penman had opened the door , said that Aunt Emily was resting and would come down at tea-time .
4 Then again , I had this vague vision — a pure fantasy — that schoolchildren would rise from their beds in this tiny village , and would file down to school carrying Japanese-made microcomputers to help them with their sums and their essays .
5 He added : ‘ Managers are saying if trade unions at local level are not prepared to sign agreements , management will not pay the Rolls-Royce additional severance payments and would fall back on state money . ’
6 and would cut down on traffic flows .
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