Example sentences of "would go " in BNC.

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1 And when he had left off playing I would go and sit by him , and a little later we would all lead the good old man to his cottage .
2 I would go home for weekends , if I felt like it , and during the holidays .
3 I would go to Rome ; Rome , where I had spent so many happy days in the past , would be my final resting place .
4 He is qualified to think the unthinkable and to pose those questions which in normal circumstances would go unasked .
5 A plan occurred to her ; she and Lucy would go away for a weekend to the heart of the country , roses round the door , and find out how they would be lovers .
6 Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside .
7 His mother and grandfather were eyeing him as he emerged from the bed and felt the nag of their expectation that he would go off at once to earn a day 's wage at Aberfeldy .
8 They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds .
9 ’ But those years he would go into his study afterwards with the coffee her mother made , to smoke his pipe and look over a case , and he shut the door .
10 I had doubted whether the traverse , my tiger traverse , would go .
11 The Israeli Prime Minister , Yitzak Shamir , procrastinated and postponed discussion of the points at the cabinet , the inner cabinet , or the top decision-making body known as the ‘ forum of four ’ senior ministers , in the hope that the problem would go away .
12 All this was shorthand for a simple warning : that if the Syrians pull out of west Beirut , the militias would go to war again in its streets , and there would be nothing the Christians could do about it .
13 I would go out of my way to crunch on crisp , mustardy jellyfish ; an oily , tissuey-textured sea-slug , slipped into a congee of boiled rice , was my idea of a hearty breakfast ; and the pig , from the brains to the balls ( of the feet ) seemed like a gourmet 's theme-park .
14 Louis Cha , the Hong Kong member who devised the system , and who resigned from the Drafting Committee in protest against Tiananmen , believes that the referendum would go in favour of democracy , but that the waiting-period would allow Hong Kong people to get used to new political responsibilities .
15 She said : ‘ Seven of the eight have competed for Great Britain and we certainly would not have submitted any we thought would go just for the trip . ’
16 And it was leaked barely hours before Edward Kangas , head of Touche Ross International , announced that the proposed merger to create the giant international firm of Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) would go ahead with Touche Ross as the sole UK representative .
17 He could have basked in the illusion of being a benevolent father-figure to his people , actually loved and appreciated and secure in the knowledge that even after he went , things would go on along the tracks he had laid down .
18 Labour would go on getting the public 's support by constructing strong unity of purpose and by its conduct as ‘ a serious , socialist , self-disciplined party ’ , Mr Kinnock told delegates .
19 ‘ The remainder , at worst , would go to the state ; or better , into a fund to promote industrial safety . ’
20 Do these experts really think that mothers are so inept that they would go on doing something that is so ineffective ? ’
21 As soon as the Bundesbank announced at 2pm that its discount rate would go up to 6 per cent and its Lombard emergency funding rate to 8 per cent , the Bank of England pushed up the base lending rate of British banks to 15 per cent , the highest for eight years .
22 That would automatically rule Senna out of the championship , even if he wins the final two races in Japan and Australia and the title would go to his team-mate , Alain Prost .
23 It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’
24 A friend of Knighton said : ‘ It is very unlikely he would go to court .
25 Last night , he told Hungarian television , that he would go with the majority of party members , and leave the party if the majority so decided .
26 At the time when there were doubts about whether or not the tour would go ahead , after the first invitations were largely turned down , numerous stories started to circulate that there would be money available and that sponsors were in the country looking for players .
27 ‘ That would mean the Conservatives losing over 1.5 million voters at the next election and many marginal seats would go with them . ’
28 The Portuguese hearing would go ahead on 18 October even though Ferrari had asked for it to be postponed , he said .
29 Sir David acknowledged a demand for political reforms to be speeded up , but hedged on how far Britain would go in backing them .
30 If the court found the west London council had no powers to undertake them whatsoever , then ‘ the banks ’ private rights ' to enforce the deals would go .
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