Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [vb infin] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I would speak on the way that resolution number one er that 's the report we brought back to the committee about timing and implementation . |
| 2 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 3 | The second point I would make on the criticism that Selby make of the need erm assessment is they say that it does n't erm take adequate cognizance of manufacturing and service employment . |
| 4 | At night I would stand on the pavement opposite the Hospedaje Lisboa and look up at his window . |
| 5 | I would stand on the doorstep waiting to pick up the children with my ex-wife sneering at me . |
| 6 | Sometimes I would go on the wagon for a few days then have a binge . |
| 7 | The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards . |
| 8 | I promised myself I would go on the Pill as soon as I was sixteen . |
| 9 | Inside I would sit on the dirt floor smoking cigarettes stolen from the drawing room . |
| 10 | And in in the circumstances I 'm talking about where I would work on the side , then it 's always gon na be erm turning to the quickest resort , rather than the last resort you know . |
| 11 | When we first made love , I would lie on the bed in a certain way so my tummy did n't flop , then I realised it was me he loved , flab and all . ’ |
| 12 | I thi I mean there were quite a number of people , I would say on the flats that we did n't make contact with at all . |
| 13 | Well what I would say on the retail side of it , okay admittedly it 's not field sales it 's not cold calling |
| 14 | Certainly erm I do n't know what Norman says , but I would say on the phone to you , Let's make it absolutely clear that this is er in the main a telesales operation . |
| 15 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 16 | I would place a great deal of emphasis on my own impressions , the comments of people in authority and I would focus on the key personalities in the ‘ drama ’ . |
| 17 | She would knock on the door , and her mother would open it . |
| 18 | When she was castaway on Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs — a year before taking over the show — Sue told the then presenter Michael Parkinson that the luxury she would want on the island would be an endless supply of clean sheets and an iron . |
| 19 | What she could do she had no idea ; but she would stand on the cliff top at Dover and heave rocks at the arrogant sods , if that was what it took . |
| 20 | Instead of completing her college course , she would draw on the money her English grandmother had left her and go straight into business for herself . |
| 21 | With her flat bottom , she would swim on the tide , all gear dropped , cunningly making use of the hidden drifts . |
| 22 | Only the senior librarian remained constant , Joyce Babcock , a contemporary of Helen 's , stuck as far as she would get on the ladder of professional advancement , suspicious of the girls but tolerant of Helen , who offered no threat . |
| 23 | She would wait on the landing instead . |
| 24 | She would concentrate on the job in hand instead , and get it done as quickly and cleanly as possible . |
| 25 | He had no answer and wished she would concentrate on the problems at hand . |
| 26 | Every time Ellie crept into her dead mother 's room , she knew she should not be there , and she would hesitate on the threshold of the airless room , while the skin on her scalp prickled with a guilty excitement . |
| 27 | She would lie on the bed — just for a moment , she thought — before starting dinner . |
| 28 | She would look on the bright side . |
| 29 | She said she would put on the computer or something like |
| 30 | If the wife was a purchaser for money , she would insist on the husband conveying as " beneficial owner " , and there seems no good reason therefore why she should not receive the benefit of these implied covenants when taking a conveyance of the matrimonial home from the husband by order of the court or by way of final agreement between them . |