Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs themselves I 'd collect at the last minute . |
| 2 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I had no idea how old and crotchety she 'd become over the last few years . ’ |
| 4 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 5 | But he seemed to be about to ring off , and I said I 'd go round the next day . |
| 6 | So we thought we 'd walk to the next stop , and then we see this bag on the floor . |
| 7 | However , I imagined that the praise I received that night was merely to be a preview of the steaming sauna of appreciation that I 'd receive after the first night . |
| 8 | I 'd come round the next lap and see the black line I 'd just laid . |
| 9 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 10 | But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners . |
| 11 | Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place . |
| 12 | If this pace kept up , 10,000 buildings classed as ‘ historic ’ would disappear over the next twenty-five years . |
| 13 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
| 14 | If it was above £85,000 the owners would qualify for the next band and pay £551 . |
| 15 | The two suitcases represented everything she thought she would need for the next seven months at the Hamiltons ' , and it seemed like an odd way to be taking what might be a big step in her life . |
| 16 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 17 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 20 | Over the weekend , when it still seemed possible that Baldwin would resign in the next few days , Sydney Arnold and Lees Smith advised MacDonald not to take office , on the grounds that a Labour Government would be bound to fail and that the party would then be ‘ overwhelmed ’ . |
| 21 | And certainly , trade book publishing did not do at all badly in nineteen ninety one in a recessionary environment and erm , there are , as Frank has mentioned particularly within Penguin , quite a lot of internal restructuring has gone on and one would hope that margins would improve over the next few years as a result of that . |
| 22 | They waited through that day in the cave , trusting that Miss Fergusson 's condition would improve by the next morning . |
| 23 | It would date to the 1st or 2nd century AD . |
| 24 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 25 | The hole would appear over the next 20 years at Hemerdon , just outside Plymouth — the scene of western Europe 's biggest deposit of tungsten . |
| 26 | On Aug. 6 Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying that it would send within the next 48 hours " a special envoy " with an extremely important message to Pérez de Cuéllar . |
| 27 | Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase . |
| 28 | The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. . |
| 29 | Making the announcement , which follows two years of uncertainty about the zoo 's future , Dr Gipps said £2.5 million was already assured for the capital project which would begin in the next financial year . |
| 30 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |