Example sentences of "[noun prp] would [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And though she half hoped that Friend would wheel alongside her so that she could ignore him , he did n't appear .
2 And a man from the Co-op in Croft would cycle over each week to take orders , the goods coming later by van .
3 She found herself wondering how long Matilda would rant against Guy , and another stray thought flashed through her mind .
4 As the host of an all-night radio show , Shepard would commune with his insomniac listeners in a way that assured them that they , the ‘ night people ’ , were the ones really in tune with life .
5 Tracing a line in a north-easterly direction , that followed the path that James had already taken towards the Chilterns where he was known to have relatives , the police were able to predict that James would surface in either Ipsden or Stoke Row , two tiny neighbouring hamlets .
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