Example sentences of "would [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coke cans , once emptied , would aec over the heads of the audience . |
| 2 | I , I hope I 've covered the ground that you were hoping I would Chairman . |
| 3 | I thought you would Chairman , take it later I see a lot of hands up on the other side . |
| 4 | Would Parliament cooperate ? |
| 5 | Occasionally , as if he was trying to control it , he would exhale three times in succession , and the sound would be forced from his throat in rhythmic grunts : ‘ Aha aha aha ’ . |
| 6 | That would kind of be kept a bit quiet was it ? |
| 7 | So you would kind of know when you saw what colour th that it would be that |
| 8 | To anyone who got Wednesdays Daily Telegraph — did it say when they would printing rules , details of players etc again ? |
| 9 | The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) would harp on the same theme , announcing that ‘ Every week some incident shows that certain parts of London are more perilous for the peaceable wayfarer than the remote districts of Calabria , Sicily , or Greece , once the classic haunts of brigands ’ . |
| 10 | Earlier this month a bill began its passage through California 's legislature which would sentence touts , or scalpers as it calls them , to a fine of $1,000 or a year in jail . |
| 11 | After this he would rail and curse at Richard Baxter 's door and would ‘ prophesy ’ judgments against Kidderminster in the market place . |
| 12 | It would clog it up . |
| 13 | I would bike to the tea shop in the High Street and see what blends they had . |
| 14 | Every day of the season she would travel in her carriage and six to Ashdown Park on top of the downs , where she would course for hares with her magnificent greyhounds and walk for twenty-five miles . |
| 15 | Would assessment in the public mind become synonymous with this process , leading all other forms of assessment to pale into significance ? |
| 16 | And yet de Gaulle himself was remarkably confident that the army would toe the line . |
| 17 | Since Mother Nature does not teach morality , how would brute beasts ever learn to be unselfish ? |
| 18 | He expresses no doubts , knows precisely what is required and will set about the job with the same approach as he would building a house . |
| 19 | The mouth was a mouth no longer , but a muzzle , a pointed snarling maw with snapping teeth that would certainly rend human flesh to shreds , with a lolling red tongue that would snake out and lick the blood and the marrow … |
| 20 | She also stored food in there like a hamster , and sometimes , when least expected , her head would snake back inside her covering and the crunch of crisps or the slurp of a boiled sweet could be heard . |
| 21 | Would Mum borrow off her ? |
| 22 | Would Mum be upset ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Do I look like the sort of person who would glory in anything ? ’ |
| 24 | RICKENBACKER bass , preferably mono unbound model , any condition , preferably cheap , would part-exchange for Hohner Jack or fretless . |
| 25 | He had Fallen , but he would Rise . |
| 26 | He would deck himself out in the kind of clothes that would give most offence to her were she alive . |
| 27 | When money ran short , whether through neglect , illness or even death of the breadwinner , women would resort first to kin and to neighbours . |
| 28 | Third … indeed , why would wilko be looking for another midfielder . |
| 29 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 30 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |