Example sentences of "[num ord] time [pers pn] would " in BNC.

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1 All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love .
2 But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice .
3 While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning .
4 They also told us that next time they would hold people in custody until the next court sitting . ’
5 Talking to other mothers I learn that , like me , they too were disgusted and we all agreed that next time we would ask for another consultant .
6 Taking a room at the YMCA I made side-trips to Victoria , Nanaimo and Seattle , and vowed that next time I would go further south to see San Francisco , Los Angeles , Hollywood and Mexico .
7 Next time I would keep my hands up — it was my own fault .
8 All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love .
9 Next time he would not only miss it but it would hit him on the leg .
10 How could I say no ? ’ he asked rhetorically , vowing next time he would do just that .
11 She smiled bravely and replied to the effect that next time she would take care to marry a politician .
12 Hell , he could n't even ask , having told her the next time she would have to take the initiative , but if she did n't take it soon he was going to go out of his mind !
13 It was the last time I would have to go .
14 I thought that my five-timer was the last time I would be up here . ’
15 Of course , Catherine had kept away ; it could be the last time he would see his wife alive .
16 It was the first time she had left little Bradley , the first time she had been out to celebrate his birth — and it was the last time he would ever see his mother again .
17 Thank God , that was the last time he would have to do it ; after this he would go as an executive , by aircraft and helicopter only .
18 It was the last time he would call him that and he could see the pain it brought to the old man 's face .
19 Using a new set of genuine Thomas Leavy documents based on his legal name change — the last thing he supposed the Federal authorities would be on the lookout for — Coleman then slipped back into the States , via Canada , for what he felt in his bones was probably the last time he would see his father and his country .
20 This was the last time he would don fancy dress , otherwise next year they 'd have him in doublet and hose , no doubt .
21 When was the last time you would have sold your soul for a stick of celery ?
22 Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model .
23 She replaced the receiver , standing unmoving , staring across the room towards the Knudsen with hungry eyes , knowing it was the last time she would ever see it .
24 It was the last she would see of him , the last time she would be able to watch the lithe way he walked , the way his smile flashed unexpectedly .
25 Then the monstrous green body exploded like a balloon of filth , spattering the walls of the cavern and the cages of the cowering young prisoners — the last time he/she would set a mark upon them .
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