Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I prayed that someone would go out there and help those people . |
| 2 | One had already borne him a son ; one would do so soon . |
| 3 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 4 | Hoomey had said no one would go back there tonight and it was as good a place to mooch about in as any other . |
| 5 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 6 | If you had a down day the other one would say well okay I let's go let's go and |
| 7 | So that one would come out then at erm just over a hundred pounds . |
| 8 | It was really what one would describe as almost a complete takeover . |
| 9 | The midnight sum indeed lasted all night , and one scientist became the ghost of the ship , a phantom who one would glimpse briefly only at three or four in the morning . |
| 10 | A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy 's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely . |
| 11 | I 'd told myself for weeks that our wedding night would be such a moving experience for both of us that you 'd suddenly realise you were in love with me , and tell me , and everything would end happily ever after . ’ |
| 12 | She was fond of making vague comments to Charity about everything being just fine , and were n't things progressing well , and everything would turn out exactly right . |
| 13 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 14 | Meals only used to take about five minutes to eat in there , everyone would eat really quickly . |
| 15 | It was the same when The Who smashed their gear at the end : everyone would turn up just to see them smash their gear and it was n't cool , because everybody knew they were going to do it . |
| 16 | Nothing would weigh more heavily with many Tories than the thought that what above all had led them to throw away the 1992 election was the way the positive values and achievements of the Thatcher years had been allowed , through loss of nerve , to be obscured . |