Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a week or so I was acclimatised , and I would laugh at the discomforts of half-asphyxiated visitors . |
| 2 | On the way I would stop at a restaurant and have lunch and then continue , taking my time . |
| 3 | I smiled to myself as I let in the clutch and moved off I would stop at the shop and tell the little man that he could collect his pans without the slightest fear of being torn limb from limb , but my overriding emotion was one of relief that I had not cut the sparkle out of the big dog 's life . |
| 4 | I would stand at the street door and wait until his tall , burly figure appeared , still plodding along with that measured tread acquired from years on the beat . |
| 5 | ‘ I would hope at the very least the council will review it after three months and consult the disabled , town centre traders and shopkeepers , otherwise we will end up with ghost streets closed off to those least able to move about town . ’ |
| 6 | On getting there I calculated when I would arrive at the next post , where I promised myself lunch . |
| 7 | Rather than somebody as I say like me who sat down there and he 'd just quote all these figures and you would n't know what the hell he was on about and just , all you , all I would understand at the end is that 's what you got ta pay . |
| 8 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 9 | Now , well now it 's just now we 've got nobody who , who score actually really scores goals except Thomas I would say at the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ I would jump at the chance of a move because it would be big step in my own career at 20 , and a financial boost for Bangor . |
| 11 | I thought I would die at the start but , actually , once I got into the swing of it all it was rather fun . ’ |
| 12 | I told him I would call at the house this evening but he said he 'd prefer to come here . |
| 13 | I would look at the lines and tremble . |
| 14 | Anca Petrescu 's model was of a palace which would stand at the heart of a new city . |
| 15 | A progress chart , I 'd thought , which would show at a glance — ’ |
| 16 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 17 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 18 | This involved what were described as ‘ initial forgings for the pressure vessel ’ — the 36-foot-high steel cylinder which would lie at the heart of the reactor — as well as other basic equipment . |
| 19 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 20 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 21 | She would leave at the first opportunity , and never again would she listen to the reckless promptings of her heart . |
| 22 | In the hall she would put on her hat and , lulling all suspicions of decay and its mortifications to rest in the conviction of her own economical and resourceful genius , with Gigi on her shoulder , she would stand at the head of the basement staircase screaming ( Gigi would scream too ) for Silly-Willie and Brigid to come and take her instructions and give their assistance while she created some nauseating delicacy for Dada 's dinner . |
| 23 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 24 | Her mother was killed in a train accident and her father , without looking at her , for he very rarely looked at her , told her that she would continue at the local school . |
| 25 | She wanted to be able to sit there and be like them , to sit there and sip Coke and not to have to worry about whether she would laugh at the right moments . |
| 26 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 27 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 28 | She would sit at the piano and sing . |
| 29 | Krabbe 's manager , Jos Hermens , said she would run at a meeting in Jena on May 28 . |
| 30 | " So are you keeping up your prayers to St Anthony ? " she would ask at the end of each interview , to which Sara would dutifully reply , " Yes , mother-in-law , " while knowing that she was not . |