Example sentences of "we would [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evenings we would stroll along the Corniche and have dinner at a riverside restaurant where we could watch the feluccas passing through the reflections of the lights on Elephantine Island . |
| 2 | ‘ I showed him on the map where we would sink into the Atlantic if we did n't , ’ Capt Goebel said . |
| 3 | ‘ I showed him on the map where we would sink into the Atlantic if we did n't . ’ |
| 4 | The only problem was that we had envisaged a tumbledown affair that we would rebuild over the period of time while we were still living and working in London . |
| 5 | The furious lights would flash past and we would move into the middle again . |
| 6 | Without line B , we might reasonably conclude that this evaluation is the poet 's judgment , just as we would suppose for the preceding verses , 15–16 ( though the presence of ) in v. 15 may give us second thoughts ) . |
| 7 | It gave us a bit of a giggle in the office , but I have to say it 's not the sort of thing that we would show to the public . |
| 8 | We would sit in the majlis shocked by the sudden blackness , held in the sudden quiet . |
| 9 | Carpets and cushions would be ordered and we would sit in the hot stillness , our voices quiet , the half-English , half-Arabic clear on the heavy air . |
| 10 | During the winter when we could n't sit outside and Bill had fewer tasks to fulfil in the garden , we would sit by the fire and indulge ourselves in what Bill called ‘ Kopek nostalgia sessions ’ . |
| 11 | If the hon. Member for Livingston ever got into power , no doubt we would return to the longer waits that we experienced under the Labour Government . |
| 12 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 13 | We would meet in the balera and spend the whole afternoon dancing together . |
| 14 | So when we came to record it , if there was a technical breakdown , we would rush to the corner of the set , grab the script and discover where we were . ’ |
| 15 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 16 | This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory . |
| 17 | We would start at the top of the stairs . |
| 18 | In addition we would draw upon the legal skills of [ Solicitors ] . |
| 19 | We decided that for the Capital Guarantee Bond we would advertise in the national press . |
| 20 | A Ferranti spokesman would not give details of the individuals or organisations against which legal action may be taken but said : ‘ We would hope in the not too distant future to take the necessary legal action to put everything right . ’ |
| 21 | Placidly we would go amid the strife of modern life . |
| 22 | In that we would go through the same procedure , whether they lived in |
| 23 | At the back of the stalls there were radiators which had plush curtains and we would shove these cakes and sandwiches under the radiators , and the next time somebody ordered a ‘ cinema tea ’ we would go to the kitchen and order a pot . |
| 24 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 25 | So , we would go to the clinic , then have lunch and go on to some special place — an afternoon on a beach , a boat trip round the harbour , a visit to Old Sydney Town or to Taronga Park Zoo . |
| 26 | Armed with this treat , I ran most of the way to Bugmore , where Dad would stop work , off we would go to the shed , sit on the upturned wooden wheelbarrow and thoroughly enjoy the snack . |
| 27 | In 1981 I was working the summer in Tenerife as a PR and when we got bored of the clubs , we would go to the beach at about 3am . |
| 28 | Or we would go to the coast to pick cotton , which is really exhausting . |
| 29 | We would go to the markets and made a particular impact there . |
| 30 | Sometimes we would go to the hills and find wild fruits and we began to grow a few things , like cucumbers and tomatoes , but it was generally hard going . |