Example sentences of "in [adj -er] [noun] [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik .
2 ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said .
3 In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way .
4 Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ?
5 Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’
6 She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik .
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