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 . |