Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this time they would attempt to popularize the LGS message further by organizing health education activities in schools , mosques and meetings . |
| 2 | During this time I would stifle all feelings of guilt . |
| 3 | During this time it would be kept in vast concrete-lined tanks filled with water , colloquially known as ‘ cooling ponds ’ . |
| 4 | During free time she would make sure everyone had sufficient to do . |
| 5 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 6 | In another time it would have been a delight , the twenty-minute trip along the craggy shore , the petrol motor almost purring . |
| 7 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 8 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 9 | ‘ At that time I would have done anything to finish the film . |
| 10 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 11 | I do n't really think at that time I would have had enough experience to justify going on the staff . |
| 12 | At that time it would provide a resting place for six to ten clients a week , and the arrival of each one had the macabre side of me guessing what kind of corpse it was . |
| 13 | And then it would er at that time you would just have the tank workers and the quarry workers . |
| 14 | At this time I would like to thank all companies who have taken advertising space in the Reference Book for their valuable contribution to the publication . |
| 15 | Erm and then he 's talking , he 's going on to education which er obviously at this time he would think is very important erm because that 's how he would start the revolution , you know , i in the first place . |
| 16 | She was tackling this man on his own terms and at some time she would be doing it head-on . |
| 17 | At one time we would have to hire a man in for a month , eating with us but sleeping in the barn . |
| 18 | But he was taking far too many punches which at one time he would have slipped with ease . |
| 19 | At one time it would have embarrassed her . |
| 20 | At one time I would have suggested that everyone would shed surplus fat on a ration of 1,500 calories daily . |
| 21 | At one time I would buy a bottle of whiskey and pour it all over me before going home because I knew she would n't try to argue if she thought I was drunk . |
| 22 | But if that that was only I was gon na say the other thing , when you 're talking about damage you know , at one time I would suggest that a good many years , you would n't see any damage out there . |
| 23 | If at any time you would like to return … ’ |
| 24 | And by that time she would be safely in Boston . |
| 25 | By that time it would have been halfway to low water and too late to dispose of the body in the old sewage outfall that night . |
| 26 | The next thing he knew — by this time he would have the undivided attention of the entire bar — one of the Americans tore his fur hat off and screamed , ‘ OK , craphead , where is he ? ’ while one of the bobbies reached into the open back seat and pulled out an attaché case that he had to spend an hour telling them he had never seen before . |
| 27 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 28 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |