Example sentences of "[adj] time [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 2 | But probably by this time nobody would still have been listening . |
| 3 | During this time they would attempt to popularize the LGS message further by organizing health education activities in schools , mosques and meetings . |
| 4 | And now this time we would like to do a vehicle check with you when we before we go out . |
| 5 | All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function . |
| 6 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |
| 7 | During this time I would stifle all feelings of guilt . |
| 8 | I would not calculate this time , this time I would try to select my route in a random way . |
| 9 | This time I would have to lie down . |
| 10 | At this time I would like to thank all companies who have taken advertising space in the Reference Book for their valuable contribution to the publication . |
| 11 | This time you would scarcely know it is on ! |
| 12 | This time you would scarcely know it is on ! |
| 13 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 14 | During this time it would be kept in vast concrete-lined tanks filled with water , colloquially known as ‘ cooling ponds ’ . |
| 15 | This time it would suit us fine to stay behind the pace — and jump to the front as late as possible . ’ |
| 16 | This time it would be even harder to put him off . |
| 17 | This time it would be at the rate of your pension . |
| 18 | But this time it would be different , this time she was not going to obey any silly rules . |
| 19 | This time it would be to stop herself from freezing , or starving , to death . |
| 20 | This time it would be different . |
| 21 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
| 22 | All his life , the fool thinks that if only he tried another woman , or holiday , or whatever , then this time he would really catch the mysterious something . |
| 23 | This time he would have to be more subtle . |
| 24 | This time he would do it himself , without Margaret , without any of her pet goons who could be guaranteed to get it wrong — to maim when they were meant to frighten , to kill when they were meant to maim . |
| 25 | The next thing he knew — by this time he would have the undivided attention of the entire bar — one of the Americans tore his fur hat off and screamed , ‘ OK , craphead , where is he ? ’ while one of the bobbies reached into the open back seat and pulled out an attaché case that he had to spend an hour telling them he had never seen before . |
| 26 | ‘ He would disappear again and this time he would not reappear , ’ said Mr McGuinness . |
| 27 | And this time he would stay in control . |
| 28 | Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again . |
| 29 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 30 | This time he would make his own choice . ’ |